Terry Blanchard

I hit a really odd bug last night. I mean, really, really odd. One of those bugs that keeps you up until 4am and you go to bed defeated. I came into the office today and had another engineer sit with me as I went through my code explaining what I was doing hoping that a second set eyes and another brain could bring some clarity.

No luck.

Everything looked good, but this very odd crash was still occurring. We were both scratching our heads. The weird part was that the program ran perfectly on the iPhone and in the simulator, as long as I didn’t have the debugger attached. The other engineer tried the build on his machine and everything worked as it should and he was able to run the Xcode debugger.

I decided to completely remove and reinstall Xcode and the iPhone SDK. Normally, you just drag a Mac application to the Trash Can and you’re good. Xcode is a little different. There’s a ton of different folders, tools, SDKs, simulators, etc scattered around the Hard Drive.

So how do you remove everything?

Fire up Terminal and type:

Type in your password and go grab a coffee. The Uninstall process takes quite a bit of time as it analyzes every package on your machine. However, it will find and remove all Xcode and iPhone SDK components. I highly recommend you to restart your Mac before re-installing Xcode.

Written by Terry Blanchard \\ tags: Development, iOS, Mac, SDK, Xcode