I am writing a cross-platform application that creates temporary files and copies these to another location, where they need to be readable by everyone. (By default, only the owner has read access ...

I don't know where to seek clarifications and confirmations on Java API documentation and Java code, so I'm doing it here. In the API documentation for FileChannel, I'm finding off-by-one errors w...

I see a lot of examples that use Files.walkFileTree() to copy a directory and its contents from one location to another, but they fail to take the directory's file attributes and permissions into c...

I'm writing a program which needs to determine files/directories last modified time. I want to handle this time using Joda Time, and I'm using Java 7 NIO.2 class Files to get file last modified tim...

I'm doing some research on Java NIO.2 and its file operations, and currently I'm playing with filetree-walking functions and classes. NIO.2 FileVisitor API is wonderful, it's a shame that such thi...

I'm trying to find an easy way to map a URI to a Path without writing code specific to any particular file system. The following seems to work but requires a questionable technique: public void pr...

I'm trying to create 300M files from a java program, I switched from the old file API to the new java 7 nio package, but the new package is going even slower than the old one. I see less CPU utili...

I have some file I/0 traversal code written in Java 6, trying to move it the New I/O in Java 7 but I cannot find any replacement for this kind of stuff. File[] files = dir.listFiles(AudioFileFilte...

Im using Files.WalkFileTree() to navigate folder and counting audio files, but there is a problem when it encounters a tar file, it seems to be treating it as an actual folder I was expecting it to...

Using Java 1.6 Filepath can be entered by user and then I apply various regular expressions to remove characters that are invalid for the platform (such as '?' is invalid on Windows), and check pat...

I'm tryting to learn the nio 2 package in Java 7 and i stumbled upon the Files.readAllLines(Path p, Charset cs) method. I find it very useful, but i'm of the opinion that there should be a ve...

I'm encountering a recurrent issue in an application that tracks content of files within a directory, based on the Java 7 WatchService API. When the underlying file system fires a modification even...

I am interested in using some of the NIO2 features in the Java 7 SDK if available (specifically, the file system watchers), however I do not want to compile my classes for Java 7 and exclude Java 6...