Apps Downloading to & accessing /files directory

[kadmos]

my apologies if this is explained elsewhere and i have not found the correct way to phrase the query...

i am updating an app i developed so that it downloads xml files it needs for content management. the files download successfully to the emulator but are not placed in the /files directory that openFileInput() is attempting to read from. i am admittedly unsure as to the proper overall solution here - app originally used packaged XML and was fed to an XMLPullParser - but i cant even get as far as attempting to parse new XML at present because my app cant find the new file sitting in /data/data/[myApp]/ and not /data/data/[myApp]/files and i cant figure out how to get it in there. the download doesnt work at all if i add that folder to path.

thank you anyone.

 

[wubbzy]

If they're being downloaded they must be going somewhere, right?

You can debug it by using File.getAbsolutePath() to find out where they're going

 

[kadmos]

i knew where the files were going, they just just wernt going where i needed them to go:

they were landing here: /data/data/com.my.app/ where openfileinput() cant see them

instead of here: /data/data/com.my.app/files/

worked once i specified the output path like this
OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(fileDir + "/" + fileName);