It would definitely need to be protected in construction to avoid exceptions and set the value to null if it fails.
I think that static methods may be a cleaner approach, instead of a static block which much catch IOExceptions when constructing the static File objects.
This would elminate the convenience of having static fields, but the possibility of receiving NullPointerExceptions instead of IOExceptions after an error doesn't seem favorable to me.
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