Re: Lost *.xcodeproj file...
Re: Lost *.xcodeproj file...
- Subject: Re: Lost *.xcodeproj file...
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:42:16 -0700
On May 5, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Harry Plate wrote:
> Anyway, I now I have a project that I cannot save. The "icon" is NOT
> present, so I cannot follow a path to my project so I can recover it. I have
> searched the entire system without success; I even searched /tmp, /private
> (via find(1)), and found nothing there…
Xcode definitely has some issues with managing project files that get changed out from underneath it. Deletion is a particularly nasty case, but the user experience if a tool (like “svn update”) modifies an open project can get pretty bad — multiple “project could not be saved” alerts of different types, which confusingly have different buttons you need to press, and the only way to recover is to close and re-open the project. If you have multiple projects open with dependencies between them, it gets even worse, as Xcode refuses to let you close a project that’s referenced by another open project, so you have to figure out the dependency chain and close the projects in that order. As a special bonus, about 10% of the time closing and re-opening the project doesn’t actually update it, and your next build ends up using the obsolete project state, causing cryptic build errors.
This is one of my least favorite parts of building Chrome, which has large numbers of interdependent projects that change often.
Ideally Xcode would just say “hey, the project file changed on disk, do you want to update to the new one?”. And in the special case that the disk file is missing, it should let you do a Save As.
—Jens _______________________________________________
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