question: public final void clearFileContents ( ) throws DataFallbackException { if ( ! dataFile . delete ( ) ) { LOG . error ( "clearFileContents() - The original file could not be deleted" ) ; throw new DataFallbackException ( "The file " + dataFile . getAbsolutePath ( ) + " could not be deleted" ) ; } else { LOG . info ( "clearFileContents() - The " + dataFile . getAbsolutePath ( ) + " has been deleted" ) ; try { if ( dataFile . createNewFile ( ) ) { if ( LOG . isDebugEnabled ( ) ) LOG . debug ( "clearFileContents() - The " + dataFile . getAbsolutePath ( ) + " has been created" ) ; } } catch ( IOException e ) { LOG . error ( "clearFileContents() : Error while creating the fallback file " + e . getMessage ( ) ) ; } initializeCounterFile ( ) ; } }
target:  Removes the contents of the fallback log file by deleting the file and creating it again and it also updates the counter stored in the counterfile