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Hangs while Generating Application Map

On two of my applications now, when I do Build & Go, Xcode hangs on the part saying "Generating Application Map"

Anybody else have this problem? I only noticed this after I downloaded about 20 apps from the App Store.

Posted on Jul 14, 2008 8:32 PM

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Jul 15, 2008 2:51 PM in response to gujamin

Sync with iTunes, delete all your applications (or at least the largest) from your iPod, do your development, then sync back with iTunes to restore your apps. (Test by deleting a single free app first to make sure you've got the restore process working.)

The larger the space your installed apps take up, the longer it takes for the application map.

Jul 24, 2008 4:03 PM in response to philipkd

Created a backup in iTunes. Restored in Xcode/Organizer. Created a new profile in iTunes (rather than restoring from the backup I just made). App installation time dropped from about 3 minutes to less than 30 seconds. I had 2 full pages of apps and apparently that was enough to slow the application map generation to a crawl. When I'm done with development/testing I'll restore my backup.

Aug 14, 2008 7:32 AM in response to Craig Patchett

The problem with uninstalling all apps on the iPhone prior to testing is that app data is removed too, which is a problem if you don't want to lose the data that an app has stored. I'm hoping that Apple is working on a better solution because right now it takes about three or four minutes each time I want to test a build on the iPhone.

Hangs while Generating Application Map

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