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I currently have the problem that I encounter an exception I never saw before and that's why I don't know how to handle it.

I want to create a file according to given parameters, but it won't work.

public static Path createFile(String destDir, String fileName) throws IOException {
        FileAccess.createDirectory( destDir);
        Path xpath = new Path( destDir + Path.SEPARATOR + fileName);
        if (! xpath.toFile().exists()) {
            xpath.toFile().createNewFile();
            if(FileAccess.TRACE_FILE)Trace.println1("<<< createFile " + xpath.toString() );
      return xpath;
  public static void createDirectory(String destDir) {
      Path dirpath = new Path(destDir);
      if (! dirpath.toFile().exists()) {
          dirpath.toFile().mkdir();
          if(TRACE_FILE)Trace.println1("<<< mkdir " + dirpath.toString() );
Every time I run my application the following exception occurs:
java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.createNewFile(Unknown Source)
[...]
How do I get rid of it? (I am using Win7 64bit btw)
The problem is that a file can't be created unless the entire containing path already exists - its immediate parent directory and all parents above it. 
If you have a path c:\Temp and no subdirectories below it, and you try to create a file called c:\Temp\SubDir\myfile.txt, that will fail because C:\Temp\SubDir doesn't exist. 
Before 
   xpath.toFile().createNewFile(); 
   xpath.toFile().mkdirs(); 
(I'm not sure if mkdirs() requires just the path in the object; if it does, then change that new line to 
   new File(destDir).mkdirs();
Otherwise, you'll get your filename created as a subdirectory instead! You can verify which is correct by checking your Windows Explorer to see what directories it created.)
        
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