I've been working on a application for a long time now and out from the blue i got this:
"Could not find a storyboard named 'MainStoryboard' in bundle
NSBundle"
I've red the similar questions here on StackOverflow and i tried everything including:
- Renaming the storyboard file
- Re-adding the storyboard file
- Cleaned the project
- Reset contents and setting on the simulator
I've also checked the plist file and the Copy Bundle Resources and the storyboard name is as it should be. Nothing of this works.
I'm developing the application with a friend and we are using Git. The weird thing is that the same version works just fine for him.
However, in the Copy Bundle Resources the MainStoryboard.storyboard and InfoPlist.strings are red. But they have been red for a long time without any troubles. And my friend (for which the project works fine) they are also red.
Ideas?
I would suggest to check that this file is not localized (with no actual localization), to remove the localization and to re-add the file.
If this does not work, have you tried to clone a fresh copy of the project from Git?
Select the MainStoryboard.storyboard, from under the project, located in the left panel of the XCode
Click the File inspector, on the right side of the XCode.
Check the box for Project Target under Target Membership.
Do the same for infoplist.strings
Clean the project and run it.
OR
Remove the files from Copy Bundle Resources
Add those two file by clicking + sign.
Clean the project and run it.
For what it's worth, I've just had this problem with a fresh project in Xcode 5, trying to set the deployment target back to 5.0.
The empty Utility Application would start up fine on simulator on iOS 6+, but would crash with above warning on iOS 5.0/5.1.
Selecting the storyboard in the Project Navigator and File Inspector tab, I found the 'English' icon was plain and unchecked. I checked it:
then clicked on 'Localizable strings', whence I got an alert:
After converting, File Inspector looks like this:
and the app no longer crashes. The Project Navigator now shows both Base and English storyboards:
I will leave to someone more knowledgeable to explain what's going on here and what are the consequences of losing the 'Localizable strings' in favour of a proliferation of storyboards...
Go to build phases in your app.
click on 'Copy Bundle Resources'
Find your main storyboard file if not than click on '+' icon in bottom and add your main storyboard file to it.
Now run the project again.
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Xcode keeps prompting telling me I don't have a certain image in the project and it errors when I try to build. If I deleted the .png Xcode is complaining about from the project, why does Xcode error out when I try to build?
[Edited by Rhubarb (got too big for the comments)]
I'm getting the same thing with these details. The copy command looks like this
CpResource MyIcons/../13-bicycle.png /Users/Me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyProject-cxsohyxdecdbptgrrtaixbhhixrj/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/MyProject.app/13-bicycle.png
then there's a bunch of setenv and the command is translated to "builtin-copy" but none of that matters, the result is when I compile I get this error:
error: /Users/Me/Development/MyProject/MyIcons/../13-bicycle.png: No such file or directory
Now, I opened the Copy Bundle Resources tab as suggested by Robert Harvey, and my .png is there, with nothing appearing in read. And it is in the file system (Finder) and in the Project Navigator. So I deleted it from the resources using the - button and added it manually using the + button at the bottom left of the list in the Copy Bundle Resources tab. This put it at the root of the project in the Navigator, so I moved it into my group again - but no luck, same error. So I just deleted it altogether (from the Project Navigator, allowing it to be moved to Trash). That worked, but I ran into the same error with the very next icon (it only reports one or two at a time).
Looking at the error message, it appears to think that MyIcons is a folder. It's not, it's just a group. There is no such folder, I can see in the file system.
When I added via drag-drop, I left the "Copy items into ... group folder (if needed)" checked and the "Create groups for any added folders" button selected. But note that I only dragged icons (en masse) into an existing group; I did not drag over any folders, nor where any groups or folders created. But somehow, the compiler thinks that these resources are in a folder in the file system that doesn't exist.
I right clicked the icon in the Copy Resources List and tried both Show in Finder and Reveal in Project Navigator: and both worked - the file is there and it knows where to get it - until it builds.
I haven't even found a workaround beyond deleting the icons yet - cleaning doesn't work. I think my group is corrupted.
look up here XCode Build – CopyPNGFile Error and No Such File or Directory .
I had same problem and this solution helps me.
If you receive either of these annoying errors when building your
xcode app, something has corrupted in your project bundle.
Open your project in Xcode
Click on your project
Click on your project under Targets
Hit the build phases tab
Open “Copy Bundle Resources” near the bottom
Look for any resources listed in red!
I had the same problem but my solution was a bit different:
Open project in Xcode
Open project navigator
In the filter down below, search for your erroneous file name
I found the file under a group called "Recovered References" and it was marked in red
Delete the red files and everything should work perfectly
Okay here's the unsatisfactory workaround that fixed it for me.
(First, note that when I right-clicked my dodgy Group in the Project Navigator) it looked like any other group except that Open in External Editor was greyed - weird eh?)
I closed XCode and restarted it.
=> Now I see all of the icons under the offending group are red (in the Project Navigator)
Delete the entire group.
Create a new group (same name) and drag-drop the icons from the original source into the group
=> Error failed to copy (or some such - I can't remember but I have seen and fixed this before - and seen it elsewhere on SO)
This error is due to leftover icons, so to fix this one now,
I deleted all other groups with icons and moved their icons to trash
open finder at the project location
delete every icon in the project (sort by kind, delete all the .png)
make a new group again, and drag all the icons in _again.
whew, now hit Builder
=> XCode crashes.
Lovely.
Restart Xcode
fingers crossed: Build
=> it works. Brief celebration and back to work.
(See what I mean about unsatisfactory)
perhaps you move the file named **-Prefix.pch,you can change the dictionary of the file ，do like this ： the error about “no such file or directory”
Check your project file paths. If there is a space in any of the folders, it causes this error. Simply remove spaces.
Using XCode 10, I got this error after deleting some files I no longer needed in my project.
In my case, I went to XCode, clicked on the project name, then under Resources, the missing files were listed in red. All I did was to delete them.
In case you need the files, you will need to add them by going to File ->Add files to , then select the files. After selecting the file, make sure you have Copy files if needed checked.
Hope that helps someone.
HappyCoding
try set target CLANG_WARN_DEPRECATED_OBJC_IMPLEMENTATIONS=NO
XCode Build – CopyPNGFile Error and No Such File or Directory
If you receive either of these annoying errors when building your xcode app, something has corrupted in your project bundle.
Open your project in Xcode
Click on your project
Click on your project under Targets
Hit the build phases tab
Open “Copy Bundle Resources” near the bottom
Look for any resources listed in red!
When I created my project, I called it "Project1". Then, later I've changed it to "Project2" from the Xcode. I changed all "Project1" to "Project2", but now, when I compile my project, it looks for files in Project2/Project1/myFile.swift and I get the next error:
<unknown>:0: error: no such file or directory: '/Users/myusername/Copy/Projects/Project2/Project1/myFile.swift'
I need to make that it will look at
/Users/myusername/Copy/Projects/Project2/myFile.swift
without Project1 in the path.
How can I solve this problem? Also, I changed from Xcode Identity and Type section Location of my project.
Today I had the same problem when I renamed the folder containing the Xcode project and some parent folders of it.
In my case there where a .swift file shown with it's name in red in the list of files of Xcode (Navigator area). I think that this means that Xcode was not capable to find that file.
I selected that file (actually it's not a real file but a representation of it).
Then, in the File Inspector (Utility area), I clicked on the Folder icon and chose the file on Finder.
This worked for me.
Renaming projects in xcode in one of the most annoying things in iOS development. I assume you want to rename your app. I faced this problem once and figured out a simple, clean way to do it.
Go back to the point where everything worked.
Open project in xcode and click on the project icon in the project structure( first file)
Go to the info tab
Search for Bundle Name. Most probably it will automatically be set to $(PRODUCT_NAME) which is a shell variable that will set your app name the same as the project name.
Set it to whatever you want your app name to be
Done
Note : If you use custom URL Schemes this might produce an error when redirecting.
ALWAYS use git or some other SVN in your projects. This will come in handy in this kind of situations
Change you folder name in you finder "Project1" to "Project2"
Remove "myFile.swift" file from project (copy on Desktop)
Restart Xcode. Copy "myFile.swift" in project select "Copy file to folder" hope this will help.
I'm trying to localize an iOS app. According to all the tutorials, one of the first steps is to add localizations to the info pane of the project editor. When I get there, "use base internationalization" isn't checked by default. When I click it, the window "choose files and reference language..." comes up as expected, but it doesn't list any files--i.e. there are no choices for files to localize.
The app builds/runs fine. My storyboard is named "main.storyboard" and is in the project's main folder, so I'm not sure why xCode wouldn't recognize the file.
Of note, the project has gone through a re-naming, and I've been through a couple abortive attempts to localize after adding a language without the base, with the idea of adding the base later. But it looks like that takes me off track, and I had to undo those attempts; in the process, I manually deleted the .lproj folders that had been created.
Any ideas on what the problem is?
Important: Before you do any actions, keep backup of your project folder.
When you select use base internationalization, Xcode will look for User Interface files (Storyboard, Xibs) inside any *.lproj folders in your project. But in your case it won't find any *.lproj folder.
Steps to fix:
Create a "en.lproj" folder next to the storyboard using the Finder.
Then move one UI file like the main.storyboard (or other UI file) into the new folder.
On Xcode, relocate the storyboard file. One way to do it is to remove the old reference to the storyboard file. (will be in red) and re-add it to Xcode.
Now you will see that this file has "English" localization selected.
Retry now the 'use base internationalization' button and it should suggest you to move the main.storyboard to the Base.lproj which it will create for you.
This problem is getting me really crazy. Xcode is looking for a storyboard in my project in a differente location from my project. I tryed removing the file, adding it again, cleaning the project, etc but didn't have luck.
This is the error.
cd /Users/fmartin91/Projects/loovin/loovin-ios
setenv IBSC_MINIMUM_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION 7.0
setenv PATH "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
setenv XCODE_DEVELOPER_USR_PATH /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/..
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ibtool --errors --warnings --notices --minimum-deployment-target 7.0 --output-format human-readable-text --compile /Users/fmartin91/Projects/loovin/loovin-ios/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/loovin.app/Base.lproj/LOOVProductIndex.storyboardc /Users/fmartin91/Projects/Base.lproj/LOOVProductIndex.storyboard
/* com.apple.ibtool.errors */
/Users/fmartin91/Projects/Base.lproj/LOOVProductIndex.storyboard:
error: Interface Builder could not open the document
"LOOVProductIndex.storyboard" because it does not exist.
I could fix this bug by killing ibtoold:
$ sudo killall -9 ibtoold
Why does ibtool need a daemon anyway?
Your storyboard is not in NSBundle mainbundle.
this problem is probably due a "Copy Bundle Resources" in "Build phases" problem.
For corrected it verify if your storyboard file is in "Copy Bundle Resources" for all targets. On project navigator select the project file select Build phases tab and check it is.
When you upload your file to google drive without zip, it appends the extension of .storyboard to .xml automatically and hence when you download it obviously the file won't exist.
To solve this issue, go to the:
[project folder] > [Project folder] > [Base.lproj]
There would be a .storyboard.xml extension type of file which you would have to rename it to the .storyboard extension. And hence your work is done.
Story board error solving visual guide:
I had a very similar problem and it took a few hours to resolve. Clearly xcode locked itself in some strange state that the project explorer could see the xib file while the compile could not. Finally this got resolved when I changed the Location in the File Inspector from Relative to Group to Relative to Project. I got this by comparing the project.pbxproj file in a regular text editor to search for any clues.
I encountered this same issue and here's how I resolved it:
Save a copy of the affected file outside of the project
Delete the file from the project, selecting Move to Trash to completely delete the file and reference from the project
Edit ProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj to remove all lines referencing the affected file
Re-add the file, making sure to check Copy items into destination group's folder (if needed)
Clean and build
I just ran into this issue running Xcode 9.2. I had copied my files from a school computer onto google drive and then downloaded them at home.
When I opened the files at home it kept telling me main.storyboard and the launch storyboard did not exist. The two storyboard files would display as xml, so they clearly existed, but even right clicking to "open as" produced nothing. After much troubleshooting I found a fix that worked for me.
SOLUTION:
Open your project folder, then the next folder named the same as your project. Open Base.lproj and you will see your two storyboards in xml format. Copy both the files, paste them into the same folder, delete the .xml and confirm the change to .storyboard. Do this for both files and you're set!
This happened to me after a git merge. I changed some storyboard localized files from one project to another and Xcode seems to keep on searching the file in the old project.
My solution was:
Edit the OldProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Search for the Storyboard name
Delete the references to the Storyboard name that appear followed by localization stuff (things like "Base.lproj", "es.lproj", etc)
Delete also the following localization entries (because they refer to the Storyboard file)
Clean and build
Repeat if other files keep throwing compile errors
For me I use xcode 10,
Click on the your project name (blue icon on left) > Build Phases > Under Copy Bundle Resources
Find the file, remove the duplicates if it’s there. Clean project and run again
I encountered same problem when moving the project to another computer. I followed below steps to solve this issue:
Open previous Main.storyboard file as Source Code, copy all
Create a new Main.storyboard file, Open as Source Code, paste
Delete previous Main.storyboard
Clean and build project.
In my case I found that the storyboard was placed in a group that referenced a folder that did not exist in the "Identity and Type" panel.
Removing that group and the storyboard, and adding it back referencing an existing folder solve the problem for me.
For me resetting the container folder of Main.storyboard file worked
I resolved this by doing this:
Open your Xcode project folder in finder, then find the file that you can't open.
Drag that file to your file path in Xcode Project (Inside Xcode App) like this.
Thick "copy item if needed" and choose "create folder references" and then click finish.
Restart Xcode
I could solve my issue, i really don't know how i did it but the things i tried were cleaning and building the project like a billion times, i hope this will be of help to anyone.
I just experienced this, and fixed it by restarting the darn computer. I found out more about it, though. In my case, my ibtool scripts weren't working, giving file-not-found errors just like yours. However I noticed a change in behavior when I ran them as sudo:
2013-09-20 20:49:40.339 Interface Builder Cocoa Touch Tool[58454:303]
CFPreferences: user home directory at
file:///var/root/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/User/
is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
Subsequent commands would fail or return without doing anything. So! ibtool/Interface Builder/whatever is somehow using some other launching service to run itself, with some other username or privileges.
Could it be that I installed some tool updates for Xcode 5.0, and it screwed up whatever serving process was running? Yes it could :)
I experienced the same situation with Xcode 7 beta 5. Rebooting my Mac did the trick.
Goto Build Phases > Copy Bundle Resources > Check for the Storyboard for which you are getting error > It should be displaying as blurred > If YES then delete its reference and add it again > Compile again.
In my case, folders in the project navigator and finder were not formed exactly the same. The Main.storyboard was in \Views folder in the project navigator but not in finder. Xcode wouldn't let me quit the app, because Main.storyboard couldn't be saved.
Here's what I did, that solved this problem:
Identify which files are missing or misaligned in your project navigator and finder simultaneously.
Copy Main.storyboard and other files that are not in their right place to a safe location.
Force quit Xcode from Activity Monitor. Reopen Xcode.
Paste previously copied files in finder. Make sure that the folder order is the same as the Xcode project navigator.
In Xcode, from project navigator right-click to where you need to add files and click add new files.
Add files from the finder.
Clean and build.
it drives me crazy, that my cocos2d project runs every second time on the device.
Every other time it says "Finished running " without launching the application.
My os version is 10.7.3 and I run xCode 4.3.
Other projects seems to work fine.
Any ideas?
BR,
Marcin
There were two Info.plist files under Resources folder. One of them was also under Copy bundle Resources tab in Build Phases section of the target.
I don't know how this happen, however I deleted one of the plist files, then removed it from the Copy Bundle Resources tab and now the project runs every time.
I found the second file while I was inspecting the whole project file by file. XCode does not report, that something goes wrong. I simply saw two files with the same name in Project Navigator pane.
Okay, I found a way to automatically do this.
Click the project icon, go to target, go to Build Phases tab, and at the bottom you should find the Validate Settings button. Click it. A window will show with an option to clean the "multiple references" of a resource. Use that, and XCode will do the rest.