Why XCode wasn't saving my project
Why XCode wasn't saving my project
- Subject: Why XCode wasn't saving my project
- From: Karl Kraft <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:01:40 -0600
The last few days with XCode have been very frustrating. The saving
of project files was so sporadic that I got to the point where I would
quit and relaunch after every change to see if it took. Several times
it would take 3-4 tries in a row before it would suddenly work. At one
point it seems to be working fine, and I spent about 1/2 hour cleaning
up multiple projects only to find suddenly it wasn't saving anything.
I would find myself getting up from my desk, and making long exhaling
sounds realizing I was holding full lungs getting stressed out with
this.
I realize that Xcode is different and takes some getting used to. I
can deal with that. But an IDE that won't save projects is worthless.
I finally narrowed it down to a single Poison Project that whenever I
opened it would make XCode freak out.
Today I finally managed to figure out what the problem was, and I'm
posting to share it for other that may find this problem occurring.
Many folders deep, the project had old pbproj files added to it. Xcode
was apparently unable to read them, silently complaining to
stdout/stderr that they were created with an older version. Because of
this it decided not to save the .xcode project that contained them.
The solution is to remove the pbproj file from the xcode project, which
is a bit tough to do since even if I remove the pbproj file, Xcode
would not save.
The solution was to delete the pbproj (didn't need it anyways), and
then open the project in a freshly launched xcode, and delete the
pbproj reference (which is now in red).
Karl Kraft
email@hidden
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