Getting error after changing project folder name in XCode

Question

When I created my project, I called it "Project1". Then, later I've changed it to "Project2" from the Xcode. I changed all "Project1" to "Project2", but now, when I compile my project, it looks for files in Project2/Project1/myFile.swift and I get the next error:

<unknown>:0: error: no such file or directory: '/Users/myusername/Copy/Projects/Project2/Project1/myFile.swift'

I need to make that it will look at

/Users/myusername/Copy/Projects/Project2/myFile.swift

without Project1 in the path.

How can I solve this problem? Also, I changed from Xcode Identity and Type section Location of my project.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238980/how-to-change-the-name-of-an-ios-app?rq=1 — sschale, Feb 26 '16 at 07:38
Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17744319/duplicate-and-rename-xcode-project-associated-folders — sschale, Feb 26 '16 at 07:58
@Anbu.Karthik I get this error `CompileSwiftSources normal arm64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler`. How can I fix it? — John Doe, Feb 26 '16 at 08:11
@JohnDoe in my case there are no red files ,but miss path files are there ,check your library search path and all paths — Kishore Kumar, Feb 26 '16 at 08:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '18 at 22:38

Today I had the same problem when I renamed the folder containing the Xcode project and some parent folders of it.

In my case there where a .swift file shown with it's name in red in the list of files of Xcode (Navigator area). I think that this means that Xcode was not capable to find that file.

I selected that file (actually it's not a real file but a representation of it).

Then, in the File Inspector (Utility area), I clicked on the Folder icon and chose the file on Finder.

This worked for me.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 09:50

Renaming projects in xcode in one of the most annoying things in iOS development. I assume you want to rename your app. I faced this problem once and figured out a simple, clean way to do it.

Go back to the point where everything worked.
Open project in xcode and click on the project icon in the project structure( first file)
Go to the info tab
Search for Bundle Name. Most probably it will automatically be set to $(PRODUCT_NAME) which is a shell variable that will set your app name the same as the project name.
Set it to whatever you want your app name to be
Done

Note :

If you use custom URL Schemes this might produce an error when redirecting.
ALWAYS use git or some other SVN in your projects. This will come in handy in this kind of situations

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 07:46

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Change you folder name in you finder "Project1" to "Project2"
Remove "myFile.swift" file from project (copy on Desktop)
Restart Xcode. Copy "myFile.swift" in project select "Copy file to folder" hope this will help.

answered Feb 26 '16 at 07:46

Avijit Nagare

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It's a long way! So, if I have 100 files, I need to do this process 100 times? – John Doe Feb 26 '16 at 07:47
possibly you didn't rename you project right way use apple docs – Avijit Nagare Feb 26 '16 at 07:50
I get this error: `CompileSwiftSources normal arm64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler` Can I fix it? – John Doe Feb 26 '16 at 08:11

Getting error after changing project folder name in XCode

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