Copy file directory another directory java

FileSystemException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. How can we avoid this exception.

There might be another instance of your program which is running which is holding lock on file. Or there could be some other process like text edition or folder which has this file open.

Just check those things Feel free to comment, ask questions if you have any doubt. Pages Home core java spring online courses thread java 8 coding sql books oop interview certification free resources best. Even though Java is considered one of the best feature-rich programming languages, until Java 7, It didn't have any method to copy a file from one directory to another directory.

It did have the java. File class, which provides a method to check if a file exists or not and methods for several other file operations but it lacks support for copying files from one folder to another. It was easy to write your own routine to copy a file using FileInputStream or FileChannel , most developers prefer to use Apache Commons IO library; which is not a bad idea at all. The Apache Commons IO library provides a class called FileUtils , which contains several file utility methods including one for copying files from one directory to another.

Btw, Java has addressed the issue of a simpler, powerful, and feature-rich file and directory library by introducing NIO 2. In short, from Java 7 onwards, you don't need to include Apache Commons IO just for copying files, you can instead use Files. Active Oldest Votes. Check write permissions in destination folder. Improve this answer. Alfabravo Alfabravo 7, 6 6 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 78 78 bronze badges.

The directory had 'read only' permissions, so I changed that. Now the test program works. Thank you for your help. Do destDir. Joop Eggen Joop Eggen k 7 7 gold badges 78 78 silver badges bronze badges. The temp2 directory is already created on the system so making the directory would not be necessary. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back I have used the method like this: copyDirectory review, trDir ; — user Thanks, better to check if sourceLocation. FileNotFoundException — Sdghasemi. If you want to copy a file and not move it you can code like this. Janusz Janusz k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Hi, I have tried this, but I obtain error messages: java. Is a directory Everything in my file and folders seem to be ok.

Do you know what it going wrong, and why I get this? But isn't there a Windows bug around the transferFrom not able to copy streams larger than 64MB in one piece? I am using Ubuntu 8. If you are sure your code won't ever run on different platform.

This means including the new filename not only the directory you want to copy the file to. Show 1 more comment. Igor Rybak Igor Rybak 2, 2 2 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Balaswamy Vaddeman Balaswamy Vaddeman 7, 3 3 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Shaktisinh Jadeja Shaktisinh Jadeja 1, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Please could you describe the first 2 lines!

Stu Thompson Stu Thompson Hi, I don't want to copy the directory - only the files in it. It's basically the same thing, no? All the files from the source directory will end up in the the target directory. Thats far better method than reading and then writing the files.

Apache commons FileUtils will be handy, if you want only to move files from the source to target directory rather than copy the whole directory, you can do: for File srcFile: srcDir. Niraj Sonawane Niraj Sonawane 7, 8 8 gold badges 57 57 silver badges 92 92 bronze badges. I can show the progress of copying files easily, but in JAVA 7 nio copyDirectory command, for big directory i was unable to show progress for users. I suggest closing the stream returned by Files.

Below is Brian's modified code which copies files from source location to destination location. Buhake Sindi Works fine but is missing a recursive logic to handle subdirectories. I suggest to do if file. You can workaround with copy the source file to a new file and delete the original. Robert 5, 43 43 gold badges 61 61 silver badges bronze badges. This prevents file from being corrupted! Jar File Download Page import org. Yash Yash 3 3 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. The NIO classes make this pretty simple.

Nate Nate 2, 18 18 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Use org. FileUtils It's so handy. Jay D 3, 3 3 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. Bhimesh Bhimesh 27 1 1 bronze badge. If you're going to post an answer suggesting a library, it would be nice if you would actually explain how to use it instead of merely mentioning its name. Romain Francois 17k 3 3 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 74 74 bronze badges. Copy file from one directory to another directory Rao Rajneesh Mishra Rajneesh Mishra 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.

Nikunj Gupta Nikunj Gupta 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Pankaj Pankaj 21 4 4 bronze badges. Varun Bhatia Varun Bhatia 4, 30 30 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Nithin Nithin 1. What is fileChooser? Dhrumil Shah Dhrumil Shah 6 6 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. File; import java.