Info.plist not in correct format

I was working through my iOS Xcode project just fine, and then all of a sudden when I tried to run it, I started getting the error below:

error: couldn't parse contents of '/Users/pavitarsidhu/Desktop/AmigoDash/SidebarDemo/AmigoDash-Info.plist': The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.

I'm really confused. I've looked at the past StackOverflow questions and still have not been able to fix this. Is there anyway to just generate a new infoplist? What do you guys think?

Solution

A plist file is an XML document in a tightly specified format; both XML and the Property List structure have very strict rules. You can easily mess things up by accident if you attempt to edit the info.plist manually (i.e., as text) by saying Open As > Source Code:

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You are unlikely to get this format right. Thus, you should always edit the info.plist with Open As > Property List:

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This allows the property list editor to generate the XML for you, and it is unlikely to make a mistake in the resulting XML structure. Of course I suppose you could still mess up the value of something...