diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtils.java
index 5113c05e41..e7a5d24570 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtils.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 public class ApacheCommonsFileUtils {
     private static class GetFile {
@@ -47,5 +48,18 @@ File after(String name) {
 //        }
 //    }
 
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    private static class WriteStringToFile {
+        @BeforeTemplate
+        void before(File a, String s) throws Exception {
+            FileUtils.writeStringToFile(a, s);
+        }
+
+        @AfterTemplate
+        void after(File a, String s) throws Exception {
+            Files.write(a.toPath(), s.getBytes());
+        }
+    }
+
 
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtilsTest.java b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtilsTest.java
index 01682289b3..fb3221cb02 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/java/migrate/apache/commons/io/ApacheCommonsFileUtilsTest.java
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void bar(File fileA, File fileB, URL url, Charset cs, FileFilter filter, CharSeq
               import java.io.FileFilter;
               import java.net.URL;
               import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+              import java.nio.file.Files;
               import java.util.Collection;
               import java.util.Collections;
               import java.util.List;
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ void bar(File fileA, File fileB, URL url, Charset cs, FileFilter filter, CharSeq
                       strList = FileUtils.readLines(fileA, cs);
                       FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(fileA, bytes);
                       FileUtils.writeLines(fileA, collection);
-                      FileUtils.writeStringToFile(fileA, s);
+                      Files.write(fileA.toPath(), s.getBytes());
                   }
               }
               """