File IO tutorial problems...at wits end

Ive spent about 3 hours(waaay too long) trying to hash this out myself. And i am not convinced it is something stupid or otherwise that I am doing with the FileIO tutorial on gamebuilder.

Anyway, i have gone as far as literally copying and pasting the FILEIO code from the tutorial into a FileIO.cs. I have placed it in my gameScripts directory, and then added an exec("./FileIO.cs"); to my game.cs in the same gameScripts directory.

When i run my project, i see it loads/compiles the FileIO.cs just fine. So i know that the game.cs is loading the script.

When i do the "writeFile();" it says File written successfully, so i know its reading the function that i wrote in FileIO.cs

But when i go try to find the test.txt file, it is nowhere to be found. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I am not able to continue on the tutorials until i figure this out, im a little OCD about it.


<-----------FileIO.cs--------------------->

function writeFile()
{
%file = new FileObject();
if(%file.openForWrite("~/data/files/test.txt"))
{
%file.writeLine("Hello World!");
echo("File Written");
}
else
{
error("File is not open for writing");
}
%file.close();
%file.delete();
}



<-----------game.cs---------------------->


function startGame(%level)
{

exec("./fileIO.cs");

Canvas.setContent(mainScreenGui);
Canvas.setCursor(DefaultCursor);

new ActionMap(moveMap);
moveMap.push();

$enableDirectInput = true;
activateDirectInput();
enableJoystick();

sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(%level);
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// endGame
// Game cleanup should be done here.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function endGame()
{
sceneWindow2D.endLevel();
moveMap.pop();
moveMap.delete();
}