this.propertiesFile = file;
        if (!this.propertiesFile.exists()) {
            final File parentDir = this.propertiesFile.getParentFile();
            if (!parentDir.exists()) {
                if (!parentDir.mkdir()) {
                    throw new FileAccessException("ECL0109", new Object[] { file.getAbsolutePath() });
                }
            } else if (!parentDir.isDirectory()) {

      String baseName = System.currentTimeMillis() + "-";

      for (int counter = 0; counter < TEMP_DIR_ATTEMPTS; counter++) {
        File tempDir = new File(baseDir, baseName + counter);
        if (tempDir.mkdir()) {
          return tempDir;
        }
      }
      throw new IllegalStateException(
          "Failed to create directory within "
              + TEMP_DIR_ATTEMPTS
              + " attempts (tried "

   *     use {@code new File(context.getCacheDir(), "directoryname").mkdir()}, or, if you need an
   *     arbitrary number of temporary directories, you might have to generate multiple directory
   *     names in a loop until {@code mkdir()} returns {@code true}.) For Java 7+ users, prefer
   *     {@link java.nio.file.Files#createTempDirectory}, transforming it to a {@link File} using

            Thread.sleep(20);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // ignore
        }

        File dir = new File(TEMP_DIR_PATH, baseFilename + System.currentTimeMillis());

        dir.mkdirs();
        markForDeletion(dir);

        return dir;
    }

    public synchronized File createTempFile() throws IOException {
        File tempFile = File.createTempFile(baseFilename, fileSuffix);

    private File file1;

    @Override
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();
        testDir = File.createTempFile("synonymtest", "_dir");
        testDir.delete();
        testDir.mkdirs();
        file1 = new File(testDir, "synonym.txt");
        FileUtil.writeBytes(file1.getAbsolutePath(), "abc=>123\nxyz,890".getBytes(Constants.UTF_8));
    }

    @Override
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {

            // meta-versions are not valid <version/> values...don't write them.
            metadata.setVersion(null);
        }

        if (changed || !metadataFile.exists()) {
            metadataFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
            try (OutputStream output = Files.newOutputStream(metadataFile.toPath())) {
                MetadataStaxWriter mappingWriter = new MetadataStaxWriter();

            }
            return true;
        }

        final File parentFile = outputFile.getParentFile();
        if (!parentFile.exists()) {
            parentFile.mkdirs();
        }
        if (!parentFile.isDirectory()) {
            logger.warn("Not found: {}", parentFile.getAbsolutePath());
            return false;
        }

        return process(thumbnailId, responseData -> {

        if (fessConfig.isUseOwnTmpDir() && StringUtil.isNotBlank(tmpDir)) {
            ownTmpDir = new File(tmpDir, "fessTmpDir_" + sessionId);
            if (ownTmpDir.mkdirs()) {
                cmdList.add("-Djava.io.tmpdir=" + ownTmpDir.getAbsolutePath());
            } else {
                ownTmpDir = null;
            }
        }

        if (!jvmOptions.isEmpty()) {

        String path = repository.pathOf(artifact);

        File artifactFile = new File(repository.getBasedir(), path);

        if (!artifactFile.getParentFile().exists()) {
            artifactFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        }
        try (Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(artifactFile), StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1)) {
            writer.write(artifact.getId());
        }

            return null;
        }

        final File parentFile = uploadFile.getParentFile();
        if (!parentFile.exists() && !parentFile.mkdirs()) {
            logger.warn("Could not create {}", parentFile.getAbsolutePath());
        }

        try {
            write(uploadFile.getAbsolutePath(), form.designFile.getFileData());