yer welcome. ideally the runtime would throw a permissions exception 
so you'd get an idea of what went wrong. file not found can and does 
mean anything :-)



>Ah thanks Jason, that seems to have fixed it,
>
>Thanks
>
>On Dec 14, 3:33 pm, Jason Proctor <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>  does your manifest declare WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission?
>>
>>  also please use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() instead of
>>  /sdcard directly. on future platforms the location might change.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  >Hi,
>>
>>  >I'm trying to create a file on the sd card. Using this:
>>
>>  >   OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("/sdcard/tmp.jpg");
>>
>>  >but that throws a FileNotFoundException. Isn't OutputStream supposed
>>  >to create the file, if not found on disk? I'm looking to write image
>>  >data there.
>>
>>  >This is on a 1.6 emulator. I have an SD card installed, I'm looking at
>>  >the sdcard folder through DDMS, so it's there.
>>
>>  >Thanks
>>
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