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So, Here I am reading in this Json file and manipulating the values, and I get to a point where I need to see the output... (admittedly I should have done this earlier)
I try (C++)
std::fstream fs;
fs.open ("test.txt", std::fstream::in | std::fstream::out | std::fstream::app);
fs << " more lorem ipsum";
fs.close();
hmm, strange, not working.
I try ofstream, just to make sure.
ofstream myfile;
myfile.open ("example.txt");
myfile << "Writing this to a file.\n";
myfile.close();
uh... still no file.
char filename[]="example.txt";
FileStream *fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode::Create, FileAccess::Write);
fstream *fs =new fstream(filename,ios::out|ios::binary);
fs->write("ghgh", 4);
fs->close();
ok... this is annoying me now!
I try absolute paths, on all the files above.
nadda.
Hmm maybe the folder is funky and doesn't allow writing to files, so I try c:\public\Desktop
Still nothing.
Any guesses of what was wrong?
Answer:
[spoiler]my antivirus was blocking me from creating a file 
[/spoiler]
- Recently, actually a day ago, I saw a strange program "COM surrogate" running on my system. I googled it and discovered its a dangerous virus. I had listened sometimes ago to the good guys of this forum that anti-virus are more of a pain than anything (and seriously slowing you system down), ... and it is not needed as long as windows defender is always on. So i removed my antivirus and always made sure windows defender is on
)
Fortunately I still had the drive and could retrieve the files... again... but it was annoying. Since I had the emulator up and running, I ran Disinfectant, a 68000-based Mac antivirus program, on the physical drive. No viruses... 
