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XCode 4 Deleting files from a project

Hello,

This is an annoying feature added to XCode-4.

Today I was working on a project and needed to add some existing files. But I accidentally added the entire folder. On deleting the folder from XCode-4 it got deleted from the machine. completely. The files are not even found in Trash. This is stupid and Apple needs to fix this. I remember deleting a file/folder from XCode 3.3 would still keep the file in at least Trash.

Any help is appreciated. Any free softwares to recover the files ? Thank you.

Desperate.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 21, 2011 12:41 PM

18 replies

Apr 6, 2011 1:23 PM in response to K T

If you are backing-up every 2 minutes, you are wasting a lot of precious time my man. Read my earlier post, all this happened in a span of 4-5 minutes. I too am an Apple Fanboy much like you sound here, but what is stupid is stupid.

Brunni

Level 1

6 points

May 26, 2011 12:46 PM in response to unspokenblabber

I didn't got bitten yet but I find it terribly dangerous because by twice I accidentally clicked the "Move to trash" in XCode 3 when I didn't want to (I remove and readd all when I made significant changes in the filesystem), because of a confusion between the space and enter keys to validate the highlighted button... then I spent a lot of time retrieving the files in the trash, but if it happens with XCode 4 I can imagine losing hours of work :/

AlMacE

Level 1

0 points

Jul 26, 2011 3:39 PM in response to unspokenblabber

I learned this the hard way just a few mins ago. I was hoping for some answers, but now I'm just going to vent!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Lesson learned.

XCode 4 Deleting files from a project