Java says FileNotFoundException but file exists

Question

I have an assignment for my CS class where it says to read a file with several test scores and asks me to sum and average them. While summing and averaging is easy, I am hav

Answer 1

Use single forward slash and always type the path manually. For example:

FileInputStream fi= new FileInputStream("D:/excelfiles/myxcel.xlsx");

Answer 2

You'd obviously figure it out after a while but just posting this so that it might help someone. This could also happen when your file path contains any whitespace appended or prepended to it.

Answer 3

Obviously there are a number of possible causes and the previous answers document them well, but here's how I solved this for in one particular case:

A student of mine had this problem and I nearly tore my hair out trying to figure it out. It turned out that the file didn't exist, even though it looked like it did. The problem was that Windows 7 was configured to "Hide file extensions for known file types." This means that if file appears to have the name "data.txt" its actual filename is "data.txt.txt".

Hope this helps others save themselves some hair.

Answer 4

I had this same error and solved it simply by adding the src directory that is found in Java project structure.

String path = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\src\\package_name\\file_name";
File file = new File(path);
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);

Notice that System.getProperty("user.dir") and new File(".").getAbsolutePath() return your project root directory path, so you have to add the path to your subdirectories and packages