I have a folder with my working xcode project in it. However when I go to copy and paste the entire folder to a different location and then go to open the .xcodeproj file inside, I get an error saying the project doesn't exist!
Does anyone know why it's doing this and how I can open the project?
I experienced the same problem with an iOS project I checked out from a repository. The .xcodeproj file is a package that contains several files. You can view the contents by right-clicking on your .xcodeproj file and selecting "Show Package Contents". Inside the package, it's my understanding that you'll need several types of files to be present.
project.pbxproj contains all the references to files in your project, as well as many of the project settings. If your .xcodeproj package doesn't contain this, you're up a creek without a paddle.
When I first checked out my project, only this file was present and I was experiencing the same problem. I then copied and pasted two files, [login].pbxuser and [login].mode1v3, from the .xcodeproj file of another project. These files didn't appear to contain any settings specific to this project, and it helped get my project up and running. I know I'm a little late to answer your question, but I found it while searching for an answer myself.
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This is not the first time I've had trouble with this and I suspect not the last time either. Despite having learned many frameworks inside out I still find the organizational structure of a simple xcode project elusive. I simply wanted to retitle a project from CATouchSynth to ABTouchSynth. A while ago I discovered that if you click on the Project folder in project navigator and than change the name in the Identity and Type section it will rename many of the relevant files and directories to the new name. However, there is one main folder inside the folder on your computer that doesn't change and still has the old name. I could see no way to change this folder name through Xcode and so I renamed it manually from finder. This turned all of my source files and assets red so I manually "relinked" them in xcode and they are now non-red and seemingly linked with the newly named folder. However I am getting several compile-time errors talking about the old folder name but I have no clue what Xcode is referring too. The errors look like this
It seemed as if derived data was an issue so I deleted the derived data folder from Xcode and I still get these errors. Has anyone experienced this before and what can I do to ressurrect my project?
Note: Before doing any changes do backup your project folder. This is seriously recommended.
Follow the steps below to rename the source folder of your project –
Close XCode.
Rename the Source Folder.
Right click the project bundle .xcodeproj file and select “Show Package Contents” from the context menu. Open the .pbxproj file with any text editor (Xcode).
This step should be done with extreme caution. Search and replace any occurrence of the original folder name with the new folder name.
Save and Close the file.
Open XCode project.
The error is happening at build time during the compile phase, so you will have to go into the app target's Compile Sources build phase, remove all those .m files, and add them again.
I have folder where i store all my projects. I have problem with one of them.
All projects except this have projectname.xcodeproj file.
When i open Xcode i see this project - it has icon with white background (other have blue background). I can open it, build and run.
I can't find this .xcodeproj file - so i can't run pod init in terminal for this folder. I See error "No xcode project found, please specify one".
I don't use git. Searching for this file had no results. What else can i do?
I think you may have changed the path for the specific project you're experiencing problems with. Try to create another project and just copy/paste the files from the old project into the new one and reference the new project.
I was moving some files around in an Xcode project and deleted some files in finder (I know). I've broken my project and now I can't figure out how to fix it.
At the moment I'm getting an Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: error when trying to build. The files however, are actually in the project and physically in the project directory. I added them to compiled sources, but I'm still getting the same error.
I don't understand how Xcode manages the source files and I haven't found any good information on how to troubleshoot these problems. Googling basically tells me to not delete files (too late) and I can't find anything in the Mac Developer documents.
How can I get my source files back in order so I can build this project?
EDIT: I noticed this in compiled sources:
The files that are causing the problems are the ones that don't have "...in Worker" next to them (Worker is the name of the project).
When you try to delete a file, then two options pop up: Remove reference or Move to trash.
If you select Remove reference, then you file is present in the project file directory. You just need to goto finder->your project and add that missing file.
If you select move to trash, then goto Trash, select file, right click and select put back.
If still you are getting error "Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64", then closely observe the error, in the last line of error, some variable name/class name is written there which is missing. Either that variable is declared multiple time or not declared.
I don't understand how Xcode manages the source files
It really doesn't. You add files to the project, and Xcode updates the project file with the fact that those files are in the project and their location on disk. If files go missing from the project (Xcode can't find them because you moved or deleted them), those file names are displayed in red in the project navigator.
So, start by looking for red filenames in the project navigator. Those are files you need to put back. If you're not sure where they were before, or if you want to move them to some other location, you can also just delete them from the project and then add them again.
At the moment I'm getting an Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: error
That may mean that you've forgotten to add some file or other to a specific target. If you select a source file in the project navigator and look at the file inspector, there's a section called "Target Membership" where you can see which targets the file is part of. If you've just added a file to the project, make sure that the checkboxes next to all the targets that depend on that file are checked.
Go to "Build Phrases -> Copy Bundle Resources" and remove those files which are represented in Red color text.
Also make sure that in your project navigator you should remove those missing files as you deleted them physically from your project directory.
Hope this helps!
I just merged one of the feature branches into develop branch, and since then, when I open Xcode, the .xcodeproj file seems lost, all files in the project navigator are gone also. click on the .xcodeproj file I get the following alert: The file couldn’t be opened.
This is although I am adding .xcodeproj to the .gitignore file across all the branches. Have you encounter such situation?
This might be caused by unresolved merge conflicts. In that case the XML structure is broken, so Xcode can't read it.
In that case you can try this:
In finder right click on the .xcodeproj and choose 'Show Package contents'.
Open project.pbxproj in an text editor (this is the actual project file, and has to be valid XML)
Check for merge conflicts (look for <<<<<<< and >>>>>>>) and manually resolve them (be careful!), and ensure the file has valid XML format
Save the file
Try again opening the .xcodeproj with Xcode
There might be better ways of resolving the conflicts, but this worked for me multiple times.
You also might want to check out this question: How to resolve merge conflicts in Git?
Basically, in a project if more than one developer are working and one developer has added some files(it may be .h,.m or any .png) and commits the project including .xcodeProj in source control management.
But due to some reason developer removes files or images from the project and also removes the use of those files or images from the project but forgets to commit the.xcodeProj project file.
If another developer checks out from the source control management and runs the application,he would get error messge error:path file/image name:No such file or directory.
So to avoid the error to run the application at our end successfully we can follow below steps
Right click on projectname.xcodeproj and click on showpackagecontent.
There we will get another file as project.pbxproj.
Open that file on text edit and remove the lines where the file or image has been mentioned.
Save the file.
And finally run the application it will work.
I know this is an old thread, but I had this issue today. I initially shrugged this answer as I don't have multiple users on the project, but I:
right clicked on the .xcodeproj and chose 'Show Package contents'.
From here, I noticed I couldn't open the project.pbxproj. I 'didn't have the necessary permissions', so I...
changed the permissions on the file to everyone can read/write, and then I was able to open the project without issue in Xcode.
not sure where this got crossed for me, but in case anyone sees this and has a similar issue and it's not a merging conflict.
Faced with the fact that the above methods did not work for me, my reason was this: when merging two files, the structure inside of project.pbxproj file overlapped and was broken, all I did was again thoroughly scan the conflicting sites for the correct syntax {some code} , availability ';' etc.
Until this evening everything was fine. But now Xcode doesn't open .xcodeproj files.
When I start Xcode then click File->Open and then click on .xcodeproj file, the open dialog is showing me .xcodeproj file's contents instead of opening the project. I found on the web that it may be due to an old version of Xcode but I am using 3.2.4.
What format is the volume on which the projects reside ? An Xcode project is actually a bundle, that is a directory containing a project.pbxproj file (this is the only important file) and some user-specific settings files (which are not important). Make sure the project.pbxproj file is present and has appropriate permissions. Also if this is a non HFS+ volumes then that may be part of the problem.
I got same error in my project finally i founded my answer. there total two option for solve this issue.
There is need one backup of your project. you can replace your .xcodeproj with old file.
you have to create new project and than have to add All old project file in new project.