I am making a mini tweet and working with team members using RxSwift and MVVM. But when I try to open a new file, it doesn't open. Restarting the computer and restarting the app is the same.
I'm working on the same branch as a team member, is that a problem? Why won't it open
NetworkingAPI and ViewModelType is new created file but The file color is weird
There are lots of reasons why that specific file went missing.
You might've dragged that file from somewhere into your Xcode project and you thought that it was copied properly onto your project folder and deleted it from the original source folder.
Merge issues.
Similar to #2, another team member of your project pushed the file in a wrongful way.
There are of course also ways to recover it.
Check your local machine.
Ask for the most updated file from your teammate.
Check your commits, and simply copy the whole source from there and fix it in your Xcode project by making a new file in your project folder.
I think the #3 should suffice.
You have the reference in Xcode but the files are missing.
This happened when merging and you had .xcodeproj conflict then someone solved it in the wrong way. Check this as reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12907864/3933094
I accidentally hit discard all changes without having "committed". It seems to have wiped all the info from the app when I open Xcode but when I go to the project file all the .swift files and icons are still there. I have tried what the other posts have said about all of the git commands but this seems to be different. Since discarding changes brought me to the starting part of the project but I still have all the files from before is there an alternative way I can restore my program?
Can't you just re-add the files in Xcode?
Xcode > File > Add files to...
... and reselect the .swift files / icons that you mentioned that are still there.
I was trying to rename my Xcode project and I followed the apple developer guide and went to View -> Utilities -> Open file inspector and changed the name. Now the initial project only has the pods and the new project created won't run. Is there a way to restore it? I have been working on this project for months and would be devastated if it was lost.
would be devastated if it was lost
That's what version control is for (git).
But if you don't have a git commit to revert to, don't worry; there is a simple solution. Start a new empty project based on one of the built-in app templates and just migrate everything from your old project into that. No actual files have been deleted by whatever you did, so there should be no difficulty about this.
I am doing a game for iPhone and iPad using SpriteBuilder. SpriteBuilder makes a couple of files in the same folder as the XCode project. I was using Source Control and I just made a commit, then I changed a little bit of the code in the XCode (I changed nothing of the spritebuilder files) and then I changed my mind and I wanted to go back to the commit I made. So I did source control -> discard changes. The XCode successfully replaced the new code with the old code but it erased most of my SpriteBuilder files!!
How do I get my SpriteBuilder files again?
Screenshot of the last commit. You can see that xcode knows when the spritebuilder files are changed so it should keep them no?
Unfortunately the way Xcode calls Git appears to do this. All may not be lost, however. Check the trash for your missing files.
Quit Xcode.
Open the file you wish to bring back your lost changes to using TextEdit.
Go to File -> Revert To -> Browse All Versions...
Scroll through the available versions. Hopefully you will have many available to choose from.
Select a version and hit Restore.
Follow 1-5 for all necessary files.
Launch Xcode. You should now see the M next to these files in Project Navigator indicating they include uncommited changes (the changes you previously discarded).
I was trying to merge branches and it resulted in the error "Unable to open project… cannot be opened because the project file cannot be parsed". I then tried to take the advice of other stackoverflow responses (namely to edit the file to remove the corruption), but was unable to edit the file. It appears that this is actually a directory, so maybe the structure of this changed with version 4.4 of xcode and since the response to Unable to open project... cannot be opened because the project file cannot be parsed was written.
I then tried to restore myProject.xcodeproj from my time machine backup. This does not work because it says that I don't have permission to access myProject.xcodeproj. I tried to change the permission of that directory, but that did not help.
I closed and reopened xcode. Now the error is:
Project ...xcodeproj cannot be opened because it is missing its project.pbxproj file.
How can I fix this problem in xcode version 4.4? Can it be restored from the previous snapshot or archive or version in xcode. Can it be restored with time machine. I would like to avoid rebuilding the entire project.
The simplest thing to do is probably to
Checkout myProject.xcodeproj from source control. This will contain the changes that were causing you to be in conflict last time.
Redo the project changes that you made since the last time you committed to source control
commit/push to source control.
In the future, when you get a conflict in the project file, take a look at myProject.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj. Often it's just new files in the project that have been added at the same place. In this case you just need to delete the conflict metadata and resolve the conflicted state.
In the end, what I had to do was
'cp -R ...TimeMachineBackup/myProject.xcodeproj ...myProjectArea/myProject.xcodeproj'
Then I had to do the following in myProjectArea:
git reset --merge
This allowed me to open the project and switch branches back to my main branch.
not a pleasant experience
Another way this can happen is if you've been using sudo for some reason with pods or the editor - if the file exists under yourApp.xcodeprojectroj directory but xcode is complaining it can't find it - Go to your project root and do:
sudo chown -R yourusername:staff ./*
For others looking at this issue, the cause in my case turned out to be, that the "conflict text" from a git merge had crept into the actual file:
<<<<<<< HEAD
F0FDA2D61B99EB80007DB99D /* Aptron-mCollegix.xcassets */,
=======
F08CFAAA1BC1E9EE00A5B6F5 /* Aptron-mCollegix.xcassets */,
>>>>>>> hotfix/Column_Text_Cut-off
opening the project.pbxproj in a text editor made the fix easy.
I found my own solution to this issue.
The cause of the bug is that the .xcodeproj file is missing its containing pbxproj file, right? This is usually present when you right click your .xcodeproj file and click 'Show Package Contents'. However, in your own case, it's been deleted, through some mistake or other of git versioning.
As you can't really generate a .pbxproj file, the solution I found was to go to the original project folder location, which I had used to create the repository. To be honest, you could probably simply create a new project also, as long as it has the same bundle identifier and such! As this project's xcodeproj file will correctly contain a .pbxproj file, replacing the files in the XCode environment with your own project's files will allow the .pbxproj file to update based on these files.
Therefore, after opening this original project folder (/new project folder), in the XCode environment, I then removed all the files within the project, and replaced them with the corresponding files from my project which I was unable to open the xcodeproj file of. I had to fix a few resulting bugs here and there, stuff involving build phases and such not lining up, given you've just copied in a bunch of new files. But after fixing a few small errors, the same project in this new location was eventually able to run no problem!
Finally, I took this successfully running version of the project, and copied in all the files, .xcodeproj file, project folder, test files and all, into the original repository location, deleting the files from the repository before hand to avoid confusing overwriting of files (you can cut and paste the old repository files to a new location if you want to be safe, and don't fancy deleting them!). Then open the project in XCode from the repository location, build and run it on your simulator/device to make sure everything lines up (and fix any small bugs you may need to), and voila! Your project is now able to be committed, pushed, and ran!
This isn't the cleanest solution, and you may have to do similar things across various branches if they've all been corrupted. However, if you don't have access to a Mac time machine, and the other solutions aren't working for you, this is possibly the most straight forward way of having a working .pbxproj file again!
Oh, and I removed the .pbxproj from my gitignore. I'm not sure if it's actually find to have it in your gitignore or not, but I'd recommend doing your own research on that subject, I'm not certain myself!
Good luck!
I was able to get this working without commandline stuff like this:
Go to Time Machine drive in Finder.
Navigate to desired backup.
Drag it to where I want it. This will complain about not having permission to access the .pbxproj
Right-click the xcodeproj you just dragged out, select "Show Contents".
Right-click the xcodeproj in the Time Machine backup folder, select "Show Contents".
Drag the .pbxproj you see inside to the destnation you just created with the drag in #3.
Now it should work.
It seems you can generate the file again with:
swift package generate-xcodeproj
although you could see this message:
warning: Xcode can open and build Swift Packages directly. 'generate-xcodeproj' is no longer needed and will be deprecated soon.
generated: ./BokenEngine.xcodeproj
with xcodebuild > 13.4.1:
xcodebuild -version
Xcode 13.4.1
Build version 13F100
If anyone wants to find the missing project.pbxproj file then try opening the .xcodeproj with some code editor and you will find the file there. And note that i had backup of my application in my other pc so i found that file there so you mist have backup of your project somewhere in order for this to work.
In my case the issue was that there were actually 2 folders with .xcodeproj suffix
The actual one was located in MyApp/MyApp.xcodeproj
Somehow another one with the same name MyApp.xcodeproj got added to root folder, with the following contents:
project.xcworkspace/contents.xcworkspacedata
project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/IDEWorkspaceChecks.plist
So deleting this corrupt(?) xcodeproj solved the issue.