not reconizing path

[sublixt]

I'm writing a code to move file from one folder to another but its giving me an exception saying the test file is not found. here is the code and exception.

import java.io.*;
public class moveFile{
	public moveFile(){
		String OS = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
		if(OS.indexOf("win")>=0)
			System.out.println("not implimented");
		else if(OS.indexOf("not implimented")>=0)
			System.out.println("");
		else if(OS.indexOf("nux")>=0||OS.indexOf("nix")>=0){
			File n = new File("/home/User/Desktop/file.txt");
			File destination = new File("/home/User/Desktop/test");
			copyFile(n,destination);
		}
		else
			System.out.println("Your operating system is not supported.");
		}
	public void copyFile(File a, File b){
	InputStream inStream = null;
	OutputStream outStream = null;
	File afile = a;
	File bfile = b;
 
    	try{		 
    	    inStream = new FileInputStream(afile);
    	    outStream = new FileOutputStream(bfile);
    	    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];		 
    	    int length;
    	    while ((length = inStream.read(buffer)) > 0){		 
    	    	outStream.write(buffer, 0, length);		 
    	    }		 
    	    inStream.close();
    	    outStream.close();
    	    afile.delete();
    	    System.out.println("File is copied successful!");		 
    	}catch(IOException e){
    	    e.printStackTrace();
    	}
	}
}

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/User/Desktop/file.txt (No such file or directory)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:137)
	at moveFile.copyFile(moveFile.java:24)
	at moveFile.<init>(moveFile.java:12)
	at mainC.main(mainC.java:4)

Can anyone suggest how i can fix this?

[Norm]

FileNotFoundException: /home/User/Desktop/file.txt (No such file or directory)

First question - Is there anything incorrect about the error message?

[DarrylBurke]

Code Conventions for the Java(TM) Programming Language: Contents

Class names should start with an uppercase letter.

db

[sublixt]

@Norm no i copied the error report straight from the eclipse console
@DarrylBurke i tried making the making the file name capital it did nothing to help my error

[Norm]

/home/User/Desktop/file.txt (No such file or directory)

If this message is correct, then you must create the path and file as shown in the message so the program can find the file.

[sublixt]

there is a file in that directory that was the first thing that i checked to make sure that wasn't the error.

[Norm]

Do the spellings match exactly with those in the message?

[sublixt]

in a terminal i cd to the directory and it went there just fine. its a ubuntu linux directory if that helps.

[sublixt]

instead of using generic User i decided to test with my computers username it gave me a new error

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/****/Desktop/test (Is a directory)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:209)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:160)
	at MoveFile.copyFile(MoveFile.java:25)
	at MoveFile.<init>(MoveFile.java:12)
	at mainC.main(mainC.java:5)

[Norm]

Sorry, I don't have a linux system and am unable to do any tests.
Change your program or write a simple program to write out a file and see where the file is written.
Try several paths.

[sublixt]

i figured it out after my long talk with a few friends thanks for the help

[Norm]

And you're not going to tell us?

[sublixt]

my path for the outStream was to a directory and i mistakenly thought that it created a new file in that directory but it needs a file to move the data into so i wrote in code to add a text file to the directory and rewrote the outStream directory to the new file.

[Norm]

Thanks for coming back with that.