I had downloaded a copy of 4.6 to see if I can use some of the iOS5 SDK's (then forgot that those aren't included in that version (they were migrated from 4.3 when I was on Mountain Lion). Anyhow, now when I open Xcode 5 on Mavericks it crashes constantly when opening any project or starting a new one.
I tried unchecking version control (never been a problem before), I tried removing everything in the plug-in's folder.
Here's the crash log: http://pastebin.com/LQnUzKzt
In addition if you have any suggestions on installing iOS5 SDK and simulators for debugging some iOS 5 crashes [yes, I know it's like 1% of users:(] I'd be happy to hear it.
You can follow these simple steps -
Quit all open applications
Remove all .DS_Store old files using this code in your "Terminal" (located in /Applications/Utilities))
find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
Set default view to "List View". So, head into Finder > View > Show View Options > Use as Defaults
Now, try to run your Xcode.
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For example:
Any ideas?
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1
Xcode 9.1 9B55
As KellyTheDude mentioned, renaming or moving the Xcode.app will fix the issue on OSX 10.13 (High Sierra) since /usr/libexec/xpccachectl (the preferred solution) does not seem to exist under this version of the OS. To fix quickly:
Rename Xcode in the applications folder temporarily.
Name it back to Xcode
UPDATE: This fix also works on macOS Mojave (10.14) and Xcode 10
UPDATE: This also fixes the Xcode Source Editor not showing up in System Preferences under Extensions (for Swiftify, etc.)
Oddly I was able to fix this by moving my Xcode.app to Applications. I originally had it nested in a subdirectory under there to version it, but alas, someone must have hardcoded a path somewhere.
I fixed this by quitting Xcode and deleting all the files in directory ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/.
This happens to me once in awhile and deleting derived data and restarting Xcode doesn't work for me. I usually have to do the following:
Close Xcode
Execute command in terminal: sudo /usr/libexec/xpccachectl
Restart my computer.
Restarting the computer is a required step.
Source: Apple Forum
I had the same issue with Xcode10.1.
All Answers here did not work for me.
I was able to solve this issue only by reinstalling Xcode.
Delete Xcode10.1 and empty trash.
Delete all files in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ directory and empty trash.
Restart Mac.
Download and install Xcode10.1.
Step 1:
Xcode > Preferences > Key bindinds > Now Search for "Documentation" in search bar you will see key for Add Documentation
Step 2:
Double click and assign new key as "Alt + Control + /"
Result: It will work now but if you want to change it back to what it was (Alt + command + /) you can do that.
Also, this will enable the Add Documentation in Editor > Structure
Its a hack and worked for me.
I just upgraded to the final release of Xcode 6.3, and found that the autocompletion for Swift code is totally nonfunctional. Sometimes, I cannot get the autocompletion popup to appear at all (even when I mash Esc or Ctrl+Space). Other times, the autocompletion popup appears, but it does not provide context-sensitive completion suggestions, only “every word that appears in this file” completion (which, by the way, drives me stir-crazy). Autocompletion in Objective-C files works just fine.
I have tried removing my DerivedData folder, deleting the xcuserdata folders from inside the project package, removing the ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode directory, and rebooting; none of these procedures has produced a change in Xcode’s behavior.
The first thing I did was to delete the derived data directories in
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData. That didn’t fix it.
So, how to open Xcode and have it not reopen any projects that it had open?
It seems there are a few ways.
If Xcode is in your dock, you can option-shift click on it and it won’t open any projects.
Or, you can get rid of all your autosave info like this.
yes | rm -r ~/Library/Autosave\ Information/
yes | rm -r ~/Library/Saved\ Application\State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState
Finally, you can open Xcode from the command line with this incantation.
open -a /Applications/Xcode.app --args -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
When I attempt to run FileMerge as a GUI for Opendiff, I receive an error:
$ git mergetool -t opendiff
Merging:
Gemfile
Gemfile.lock
...
Normal merge conflict for 'Gemfile':
{local}: modified file
{remote}: modified file
Hit return to start merge resolution tool (opendiff):
2013-12-26 20:00:20.248 opendiff[22367:e07] Couldn't find FileMerge
Gemfile seems unchanged.
Was the merge successful? [y/n] ^C
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I have installed XCode 4.6.3 and Command Line Tools for Xcode April 2013. I am running OSX 10.7.5
I have tried solutions from the following two links with no success:
git diff with opendiff gives "Couldn't launch FileMerge" error
Is filemerge still available after Xcode 4.3 installation?
When I go to Xcode -> Open Developer Tool I do not see FileMerge in the list of options. There is a More Developer Tools link that takes me here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=for%20Xcode%20-
How do I get FileMerge working?
FileMerge is located at within Xcode.
From the command-line:
cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/
open .
Go into that directory once it opens:
Right-click on the app
Choose "Make alias"
Move that alias to your Applications directory
You're all set.
Strange. "XCode 4.5, where is FileMerge ?" suggests:
The FileMerge that is bundled with Xcode 4.5 doesn't work as a standalone application. I tried compressing it from the application bundle. I was able to expand it to show the FileMerge app on the desktop. But when I tried to run it I got an error saying it couldn't be opened.
Apple's developer downloads site has every version of Xcode. You could try trashing your current version of Xcode 4.5, downloading Xcode 4.5 from the developer downloads site, and see if FileMerge is there. If not, you can download Xcode 4.4 and see if that has FileMerge.
Indeed, I downloaded a fresh new install of XCode 4.5 and put my updated 4.4 to 4.5 upgraded version into the trash and I have now all the developer tools again, including FileMerge. Weird...
The other option, from that same thread:
Why not just install the Command Line Tools? That will give you the "opendiff" tool. Then, you create a little script like this one to make it useful and actually do a merge.
#!/bin/sh
# Get a hold of the last parameter.
eval LAST=\${$#}
# Now run opendiff with the previous version and the current version.
opendiff ${*} -merge "$LAST"
if you have xcode installed, then you can probably run the following from the command line to open FileMerge directly
open /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/FileMerge.app/
Try reinstalling Xcode. I had the same issue and it fixed it for me! It appears the Merge utility got corrupt somehow.
So, I opened a xib file from an older project and it caused a crash. That's not the issue. The issue is that now when I restart Xcode, it tries to open all previously opened projects (and files) and the crash re-occurs. Where does Xcode store the list of previously open files, and how can I get it to start 'clean' without any open projects?
Update: As a note - this is the latest version of Xcode 4.2 on Lion.
Press option+Shift when clicking on the Xcode icon in the dock. Xcode then starts without opening previously used projects. This is related to version Version 4.5.2 (4G2008a) but I am almost sure that I used it in older versions as well.
I've recently had a similar problem. I tried the methods above and could launch Xcode from the command line, but as soon as I tried to open from the finder, it would try to open the "bad" document and hang.
I eventually resolved it by removing the contents of :
~/Library/Autosave Information/
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState
This seems to have fixed it for me.
I just spent half the day stressing over a very similar issue. I had tried updating and reinstalling Xcode - but the problem still persisted. Thankfully, a few minutes ago, I managed to solve this by doing what your question states with the help of this post.
Basically, I opened another Xcode project (it can be any file, though) from the terminal using the following command:
open -a /Applications/Xcode.app app.xcodeproj/ --args -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
This successfully launched Xcode with the standard 'Welcome to Xcode' dialog box you usually get. Hope that helps!
I was able to do it with the following command line in Mavericks:
open -a /Applications/Xcode.app --args -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
Not specific to Xcode:
Please make sure Close windows when quitting an application checkbox is checked under System Preferences > General.
You can stop Xcode from opening the last project by running the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ApplePersistenceIgnoreState -bool YES
This and other useful commands are here.
Instead of looking for the file that contains Xcode's settings, take a look at the settings themselves using the defaults command:
% defaults read com.apple.xcode | more
I notice two keys that might be relevant: NSRecentXCFileDocuments and NSRecentXCProjectDocuments. Both appear to be arrays, so you could reset one like this:
% defaults write com.apple.xcode NSRecentXCFileDocuments -array ""
Alternately, you could use the defaults read command to dump the settings into a text file, edit that, and then use defaults write to update the settings:
% defaults read com.apple.xcode > xcsettings.plist
// edit xcsettins.plist with your favorite editor
% defaults write com.apple.xcode < xcsettings.plist
Given the project name "MyProject" in directory ~/Documents/Projects/MyProject do the following:
cd ~/Documents/Projects
mv MyProject MyProject.x
open -a Xcode
close MyProject (Option+Command+W)
mv MyProject.x MyProject
open -a Xcode
The this solved the crash for me... however my Storboard was corrupt. Fortunately the Time Machine backup of the folder was intact, I just restored it.
For me it wasn't a project that was causing the crash on startup, it was a particular file (an sks to be exact), so Kay's answer didn't work. When I went to open my particular project, it would still crash.
I simply temporarily deleted the file. Then I opened the project, cleaned, and re-added the file, and all was well.
I think Xcode may update its cache when you quit. It solved my issue to:
close projects
quit Xcode
reopen Xcode.
I want to remove all existing SDK versions as well as Xcode 4.
Xcode 4 Guide says to do this:
sudo /Xcode4/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
But I don't have Xcode4 at this location and the only place I see it is under /Developer/Applications
I've already run the uninstall-devtools that was previously found in /Developer/Applications and then did a reinstall.
What else can I do to completely remove everything and start from scratch?
I use this command:
sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Edit (1 year later):
If you've downloaded Xcode from the App Store, it's self-contained, as #mediaslave suggests. You can just drag it to the trash or use AppZapper (or a similar utility) to remove the developer tools.
If you're looking to update it, you can also do that straight through the App Store.
sudo /[xcode-path]/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Normally, [xcode-path] means /Developer, but if you have multiple versions, for example 3 is the first installed, 4 is second, /Developer will be xcode 3's root derectory and /Xcode4 for xcode 4.
Ensure Xcode, iOS Simulator, and the Mac App Store apps aren't running, then trying running the uninstall script at this (different!) location:
/Library/Developer/Shared/uninstall-devtools
This is where I found it.
Also delete Install Xcode.app from Applications folder, and Empty Trash.
Then run App Store again, and find/install Xcode.
su (or sudo su, whatever)
find / -name uninstall-devtools
This will reveal where the utility is...
If you have XCode 4.3.1, just Move To Trash the XCode.app file in the Applications folder.
If you have installed xcode from Mac App store, then you need to delete it from Launch pad. You can do this by locating xcode icon in launch pad, long click on the icon till it starts dancing. Then delete it and wait for a while till the xcode.app is deleted from /Application. If you manually delete xcode.app from /Application, App store will continue to think its installed and will not allow you to reinstall in future.
I tried to uninstall this by deleting it, but the AppStore still thought that it was installed. I deleted some preferences files in my /private directory, which made the AppStore "forget" that I had installed Xcode. I used the following command:
sudo find / -iname '*xcode*' 2> /dev/null | egrep '^/private.*' | xargs -I file sudo rm -rfv file
Which deleted the following files from my computer:
/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeMAS_iOSSDK_6_1.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeMAS_iOSSDK_6_1.plist
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503/CachedSpecifications-Xcode
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/7d/n34963zx62s7znxyzn3dn6bh0000gq/C/com.apple.Xcode.503
I do not know what these files are used for, but it made the AppStore forget that it was installed, which is what I needed to happen. In my case, the AppStore was not allowing me to update to the new version of Xcode.