What am I doing wrong with the function?

So you're saying I also need to find a random file in the targetDirectory to set as my second argument?

no. My assumption is to just use the file name in the source as the new file name in the desination. So the source will be the directory with files in it. The destination will (most likely) be an empty empty. For each file in source get the file name and then add it to the destination directory. So if the source has 3 files in it named file1.txt, file2.txt, and file3.txt your code should do this: sourcePath/file1.txt → destinationPath + file1.txt sourcePath/file2.txt → destinationPath + file2.txt sourcePath/file3.txt → destinationPath + file3.txt p.s. don't forget about the forward slash(es) / that are in file paths

i'll try that out

something like this?

String pp = String.format("%s%s", targetDirectory,
path.getFileName());
Path t = Files.createFile(Path.of(pp));
Path n = Files.copy(path, t);

I don't think that will work because you need the double slashes in there:

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String pp = String.format("%s\\%s", targetDirectory,
path.getFileName());

**However** Someone (Lisa) told me of a much more elegant solution. Paths have a resolve method. You use that with a Path that is a directory and pass it a fileName and it will return a new path that is the directory plus the filename formatted properly for use: So lets say you have a source Path that is a file, such as: C:/user/desktop/myFile.txt and a destination directory such as: C:/user/desktop/target your would do this:

destination.resolve(source.getFileName());

This returns a path that is: C:/user/desktop/target/myFile.txt

i can sleep in peace now, thanks so much