/** writes safely (to temp file, then rename) */ public static void saveTextFile(String fileName, String contents) throws IOException { File file = new File(fileName); File parentFile = file.getParentFile(); if (parentFile != null) parentFile.mkdirs(); String tempFileName = fileName + "_temp"; File tempFile = new File(tempFileName); if (contents != null) { if (tempFile.exists()) try { S saveName = tempFileName + ".saved." + now(); copyFile(tempFile, new File(saveName)); } catch (Throwable e) { printStackTrace(e); } FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = newFileOutputStream(tempFile.getPath()); OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(fileOutputStream, "UTF-8"); PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(outputStreamWriter); printWriter.print(contents); printWriter.close(); } if (file.exists() && !file.delete()) throw new IOException("Can't delete " + fileName); if (contents != null) if (!tempFile.renameTo(file)) throw new IOException("Can't rename " + tempFile + " to " + file); } public static void saveTextFile(File fileName, String contents) { try { saveTextFile(fileName.getPath(), contents); } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } }