| Hi all,
Am using Xcode 4.1 under 10.7.1 build 11B26 on a late 2009 iMac i7 with 12 GB RAM and ~1.4 TB free drive space. It seems unstable as hell.
Was just now editing a custom plist by hand inside a project to understand how I wanted to structure it, when it gave me a dialog saying it found an internal inconsistency and did I want to crash or continue or what? When I said continue, it showed the plist as empty (in the file system it seemed to be intact but I didn't verify strictly). After messing around some, I decided to Quit and relaunch Xcode. Xcode told me it couldn't save my plist. OK, fair enough. But it also disabled Quit. Finally closed the project and force quit Xcode.
On relaunch, Xcode showed approximately the first half of my plist, probably back to the state at the build previous to the recent editing I did.
I see the Inconsistent state dialog come up a lot under various conditions, mostly related to text editing or building IIRC. The plist episode was a first. Xcode seems to give this error 3-4 times a day (say 4-5 hours dev time on it), at which point I usually quit and relaunch. I've previously lost some edits, but was not too steamed about it because they're toy projects so far.
But I'm getting really concerned about committing to larger, real projects under Xcode. Back in Xcode 2 and 3 days, I don't recall experiencing this, though there's been a number of large gaps in my Xcode usage since I finished my 10,000 lines of NCSS project late in 2007, only using it every few months to add some functionality or fix some bugs.
I don't use APE or Input Managers, or play with other, similar dirty, pretty things. I don't get Developer previews, since I have the free membership. Xcode 4.02 seems fine on my 10.6.8 MacBook1,1 though I don't use it there a lot.
Does anyone else here experience this too-often Xcode flakiness? Any advice on how to rein it in?
Thanks
ScottB |