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IOS can't sync after renaming App.xcodeproj

Hello i have manually renamed App.xcodeproj file to MyProject.xcodeproj. And now i can't sync my capacitor project ios cap sync

this is the error i am getting

[error] 2022-09-26 17:49:31.909 xcodebuild[11747:97674] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier
    Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionSentinelHostApplications for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionHosts.watchOS
    of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
    2022-09-26 17:49:31.911 xcodebuild[11747:97674] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier
    Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionPointIdentifierToBundleIdentifier for extension
    Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionToBundleIdentifierMap.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
    Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project App.xcodeproj clean
    
    User defaults from command line:
    IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES
    
    xcodebuild: error: 'App.xcodeproj' does not exist.
    
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess capacitor.

any help?

Solution

  • As shown in your error message, XCode is still looking for the old file App.xcodeproj:

    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -project App.xcodeproj clean

    Just rename your project to App.xcodeproj and it should work again.