Is it good to catch a more general type of Exception?

Question

If we are to catch specific forms of IOException, or any other kind as a matter of fact, and we only try and catch a couple (and define definitive outputs for t

Answer 1

I think it is a matter of personal preference. Personally, this seems not to be a good choice. I prefer to have code that makes sense to me with the try-catch stuff. This means being as specific as possible. I would say:

try{
    //Code Here
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e){
    //Code Here
}