StreamCorruptedException what?

It's throwing this error at the code with orange text

employees is an array list of Employee objects

Code:

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public void displayFileContents(){
                File[] files = directory.listFiles();
                File chosenDirectory = new File(files[chooseFile(directory.list(), files) - 1].getPath());
                try {
                        FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream(chosenDirectory);
                        ObjectInputStream objectIn = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn);
                        while(fileIn.available() > 0){
                                try {
                                        [COLOR="DarkOrange"]employees.add((Employee) objectIn.readObject());[/COLOR]
                                } catch (Exception e) {
                                        e.printStackTrace();
                                        System.exit(0);
                                        System.out.println("Error while reading object");
                                }
                        }
                        objectIn.close();
                        for(int i = 0; i < employees.size(); i++){
                                System.out.println(employees.get(i).toString());
                        }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        System.out.println("Error in displayFileContent");
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

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The "Choose file" method

Code:

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public int chooseFile(String[] fileNames, File[] files){
                int i = 0, choice = 1, counter =  fileNames.length;
                while (counter > 0){
                        System.out.println("[" + choice + "]" + fileNames[i]);
                        choice++;
                        i++;
                        counter--;
                }
                return getInput(1, fileNames.length);
        }

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Are you sure the object you're reading in has been properly written to the file?
A common mistake newbies make is use multiple output streams, such as writing objects and plain strings at the same time. Double check how you wrote the objects.

make sure that the file you use to store object is valid or not.

Here's how I write objects to the file

Code:

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public void writeEmployeeToFile(File dir) {
                boolean done = false;
                while(!done){
                        try {
                                FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream(dir);
                                ObjectInputStream objectIn = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn);
                                while(fileIn.available() > 0){
                                        try {
                                                employees.add((Employee) objectIn.readObject());
                                        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                                                System.out.println("Error while reading object");
                                        }
                                }
                                objectIn.close();
                                FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream(dir, true);
                                ObjectOutputStream objectOut = new ObjectOutputStream(fileOut);
                                for(int i = 0; i < employees.size(); i++){
                                        objectOut.writeObject(employees.get(i));
                                }
                                objectOut.writeObject(getEmployee());
                                employees.clear();
                                objectOut.flush();
                                objectOut.close();
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                                try {
                                        FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream(dir, true);
                                        ObjectOutputStream objectOut = new ObjectOutputStream(fileOut);
                                        objectOut.writeObject(getEmployee());
                                        objectOut.flush();
                                        objectOut.close();
                                } catch (IOException e1) {
                                        System.out.println("You REALLY fucked up");
                                }
                        }
                        System.out.println("Add another employee to " + dir.getName() + "?\n[1] Yes\n[2] No");
                        int selection = getInput(1, 2);
                        if(selection == 2){
                                done = true;
                        }
                }
        }

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Using this method to get the Employee object

Code:

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public Employee getEmployee() {
                System.out.println("Employee ID: ");
                int ID = getInput(1, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
                System.out.println("Employee name: ");
                String name = scan.nextLine();
                System.out.println("Employee occupation: ");
                String job = scan.nextLine();
                Employee emp = new Employee(ID, name, job);
                return emp;
        }

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Please use [ code ] code goes here [ /code ] (without the spaces) and indent your code so it can be easier to read. The only thing that stands out is you supplied "true" as the second parameter to FileOutputStream. This means you are appending data to the file. Are you sure there were previous objects in that file? That's where the problem might be at.