java.io.FileNotFoundException, file not being found

Rauter picture Rauter · Jul 1, 2011 · Viewed 65.3k times · Source

I just wanted to read a file line by line. This was meant to be simple, but i just can't get it right!

String fileName = "C:/Users/Diogo/Desktop/Krs_Grafo/Graph.txt";
FileReader file = new FileReader(fileName);
BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(file);
System.out.println(inputStream.readLine());

i keep getting the error:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\Diogo\Desktop\Krs_Grafo\Graph.txt (O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:79)
at java.io.FileReader.<init>(FileReader.java:41)
at krs_grafo.Krs_Grafo.main(Krs_Grafo.java:51)
Java Result: 1

The system cant find the file, but i'm sure as hell it is there! I'm using Netbeans 7.0 on a Windows 7.

Any suggestions?

AS SAID IN THE COMMENTS, it was searching for "Graph" and not "Graph.txt". This was from a previous execution where I tried without the extension. So, I edited it to be coherent. It still doesn't work.

Answer

Rauter picture Rauter · Jul 2, 2011

The problem here is that the file name was actually "Graph.txt.txt" wich I couldn't see because the extensions were hidden.

Thanks to user "Michael Brewer-Davis" who asked in the comments for "output of cd and dir in the given directory".

Also point out that either / and \\ work just fine.