FileOutputStream access is denied : JAVA

fileoutputstream, java

Solution

You are trying to access the directory. The parameter of the FileOutputStream should be a `File`/ `Path` object pointing to a file:

 FileOutputStream file  = new FileOutputStream("path/file.txt");
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For more detail take a look on http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/FileOutputStream.html

Problem

I have the following code with the iText library properly integrated. ``` import java.io.*; import com.itextpdf.text.*; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; @org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault(true) public class HelloWorld { public static final String RESULT = "C:\\Users\\administrator\\Pictures\\tuto"; @SuppressWarnings("resource") public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(RESULT)); document.open(); document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!")); document.close(); } } ``` This code returns me an error message, which is as follows. ``` Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\valentin.schaefer\Pictures\tuto (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:25) ``` Yet I am the computer administrator and I normally have all permissions account. I don't understand why he retourn me `Access is denied`.

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