Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileOutputStream; public class MainClass { public static void main(String[] Args) { String filepath = "C:/myFile.txt"; File aFile = new File(filepath); FileOutputStream outputFile = null; if (aFile.isFile()) { File newFile = aFile; do { String name = newFile.getName(); int period = name.indexOf('.'); newFile = new File(newFile.getParent(), name.substring(0, period) + "_old" + name.substring(period)); } while (newFile.exists()); aFile.renameTo(newFile); } try { outputFile = new FileOutputStream(aFile); System.out.println("myFile.txt output stream created"); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); } } }