My program is suppose to maintain a collection of Photos in a PhotoAlbum. It begins by reading a folder of photos and adds them to my PhotoAlbum. It then prints a menu that allows the user to list all the photos, add a photo, find a photo, save, and quit the program. Right now if I run my program it will add the 100 photos to the PhotoAlbum, but if I quit the program without saving, it clears the file I am reading from even if I haven't added a photo or done anything to the PhotoAlbum and I'm not sure why.

Here is my method for printing to a file:

private static void saveFile(PrintWriter writer) {
 String result;
  ArrayList<Photo> temp = album.getPhotoAlbum();
  for (int i = 0; i < temp.size(); i++){
   result = temp.get(i).toString() + "\n";
   writer.println(result);
  }
  writer.close();
 }

And where the PrintWriter is instantiated:

File file = new File(args[0] + File.separator + "album.dat");

try {
   PrintWriter fout =  
new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(file));
   fileWriter = fout;
  } catch (IOException e){
   System.out.println("ReadFromFile: Folder " + args[0]
                          + " is not found.");
   System.exit(0);
  }

And where it is called in my runMenu Method:

private static void runMainMenu(Scanner scan) {
  String input;
  do {
   showMainMenu();
  input = scan.nextLine().toLowerCase();
  switch (input.charAt(0)) {
  case 'p':
   System.out.println(album.toString());
   break;
  case 'a': 
  album.addPhoto(readPhoto(scan, t));
   break;
  case 'f':
  findMenu(scan);
   break;
  case 's':
   saveFile(fileWriter);
   System.exit(0);
   break;
  case 'q':
   break;
  default:
   System.out.println("Invalid entry: " + 
     input.charAt(0));
   break;
  }
  } while (!input.equalsIgnoreCase("q"));
 }