How do I move a file from one location to another in Java

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How do you move a file from one location to another  When I run my program any file created in that location automatically moves to the specified location  How do I know which file is moved

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Files move source  target  REPLACE EXISTING     You can use the Files object     Read more about Files

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You could execute an external tool for that task  like copy in windows environments  but  to keep the code portable  the general approach is to    read the source file into memory write the content to a file at the new location delete the source file   File renameTo will work as long as source and target location are on the same volume  Personally I d avoid using it to move files to different folders

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Wrote this method to do this very thing on my own project only with the replace file if existing logic in it      we use the older file i o operations for this rather than the newer jdk7  Files move   operation private boolean moveFileToDirectory File sourceFile  String targetPath        File tDir   new File targetPath       if  tDir exists              String newFilePath   targetPath File separator sourceFile getName            File movedFile   new File newFilePath           if  movedFile exists                movedFile delete            return sourceFile renameTo new File newFilePath          else           LOG warn  unable to move file   sourceFile getName     to directory   targetPath   - gt  target directory does not exist            return false

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Please try this     private boolean filemovetoanotherfolder String sourcefolder  String destinationfolder  String filename                boolean ismove   false              InputStream inStream   null              OutputStream outStream   null               try                    File afile   new File sourcefolder   filename                   File bfile   new File destinationfolder   filename                    inStream   new FileInputStream afile                   outStream   new FileOutputStream bfile                    byte   buffer   new byte 1024   4                    int length                     copy the file content in bytes                 while   length   inStream read buffer    gt  0                     outStream write buffer  0  length                                           delete the original file                 afile delete                    ismove   true                  System out println  File is copied successful                    catch  IOException e                    e printStackTrace                 finally                 inStream close                   outStream close                              return ismove

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File renameTo from Java IO can be used to move a file in Java  Also see this SO question

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To move a file you could also use Jakarta Commons IOs FileUtils moveFile  On error it throws an IOException  so when no exception is thrown you know that that the file was moved

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myFile renameTo new File  quot  the new place newName file quot      File renameTo does that  it can not only rename  but also move between directories  at least on the same file system    Renames the file denoted by this abstract pathname  Many aspects of the behavior of this method are inherently platform-dependent  The rename operation might not be able to move a file from one filesystem to another  it might not be atomic  and it might not succeed if a file with the destination abstract pathname already exists  The return value should always be checked to make sure that the rename operation was successful   If you need a more comprehensive solution  such as wanting to move the file between disks   look at Apache Commons FileUtils moveFile

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Try this  -    boolean success   file renameTo new File Destdir  file getName

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Just add the source and destination folder paths   It will move all the files and folder from source folder to  destination folder       File destinationFolder   new File          File sourceFolder   new File           if   destinationFolder exists                  destinationFolder mkdirs                  Check weather source exists and it is folder      if  sourceFolder exists    amp  amp  sourceFolder isDirectory                     Get list of the files and iterate over them         File   listOfFiles   sourceFolder listFiles             if  listOfFiles    null                        for  File child   listOfFiles                                    Move files to destination folder                 child renameTo new File destinationFolder          child getName                                    Add if you want to delete the source folder              sourceFolder delete                        else               System out println sourceFolder      Folder does not exists

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You can try this   clean solution Files move source  target  REPLACE EXISTING

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Java 6  public boolean moveFile String sourcePath  String targetPath         File fileToMove   new File sourcePath        return fileToMove renameTo new File targetPath        Java 7  Using NIO   public boolean moveFile String sourcePath  String targetPath         boolean fileMoved   true       try            Files move Paths get sourcePath   Paths get targetPath   StandardCopyOption REPLACE EXISTING          catch  Exception e             fileMoved   false          e printStackTrace               return fileMoved

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With Java 7 or newer you can use Files move from  to  CopyOption    options    E g   Files move Paths get   foo txt    Paths get  bar txt    StandardCopyOption REPLACE EXISTING     See the Files documentation for more details

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