XCode 4 Deleting files from a project

Was the folder backed up in Time Machine?

Xcode4 still asks if you want to delete the files themselves or just the references. The default response is "just the references".

I see what you mean now. Xcode3 explicitly says "Move to the trash" whereas Xcode4 just says "delete". It seems like a change Apple meant to do. All you can do is submit an enhancement request and ask them to change it back.

W/Xcode 4, I see a dialog that says cancel; remove; remove reference only; delete. Right above that is says "The operation cannot be undone. Unsaved changes will be lost".

The 'are you sure' effort is therefore in place.

If you want 'are you sure you're sure?' style of dumbed down Window's dialogs, you're not going to get it w/these tools...that hasn't changed. Don't blame the tools.

You poor soul. You did exactly what I did an hour ago. The files were nowhere to be found on my filesystem as I verified with the mdfind command. I did find my files in time machine and by luck they were within a few compilation errors of completion.

Goodness yes this needs to get fixed! A lot of the code I write is straight forward but these changes were a result of a significant refactoring I had nearly completed.

This really needs to be fixed. I got bit by this today as well..

I created a default Audio Unit, then added a second target to my project with another Audio Unit. When I decided to delete the second target I said yes to deleting the files, read the warning about not being able to undo this and clicked okay because I really didn't want any of the files anymore. Then Xcode deletes all the included AudioUnit system files from my computer (AUBase.h, etc...) because they were linked in a folder within the project!! Now I have to re-download and reinstall XCode4 to get the files back. Sheesh.

And that's the future? 😉

+>Oh well.. lets see you loose your files and then not blame this change.+

I take my work seriously - I have backups. It's a poor man that blames his tools. Don't shirk your responsibilities by fearing and blaming change.

D7 wrote:
You poor soul. You did exactly what I did an hour ago. The files were nowhere to be found on my filesystem as I verified with the mdfind command. I did find my files in time machine and by luck they were within a few compilation errors of completion.

Time Machine was not designed for source control. Xcode supports both git and subversion.

Goodness yes this needs to get fixed! A lot of the code I write is straight forward but these changes were a result of a significant refactoring I had nearly completed.

Doesn't refactoring save a snapshot of your project by default?

joshnapkins wrote:
This really needs to be fixed.

It isn't going to be fixed.

Xcode deletes all the included AudioUnit system files from my computer (AUBase.h, etc...) because they were linked in a folder within the project!!

They were what? Leave system files where they belong. Don't put them in your project.

Of course time machine is not designed for source control. It does, however, provide a near hourly backup that helped solve my immediate problem. I am using git and perhaps if my experience with git wasn't so low I would have been able to recover the files. During and after the loss I've spent a good deal of time learning git at the command line.

Refactoring may save a snapshot but I believe it does so when you start--I was well into the changes by then.

How were the files linked? Seems that you wouldn't have to link to these files with the right header search paths included.