XCode 4 says, "Argument Invalid" on attempt to run project

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I had a project initially created in XCode 3 and used it successfully in XCode 4 Developer Preview version.

After upgrading to XCode 4 release, any time I try to run the project on the device, I get a "Argument Invalid" dialog. Except it doesn't tell me what argument.

How does one figure out what is wrong and why I can't run the app on my device any more?

Base SDK is set to 4.3 Deployment target set to: iOS 4.2

I uninstalled XCode completely and reinstalled it - that seemed to fix the issue. — Jonas Anderson, Mar 24 '11 at 16:39

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '11 at 16:51

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Ok, I have just managed to sort this out as I was having the same issue. This may not help you, but for me it was because I had a symlink inside a folder included in the project. I've removed this, and now it all works fine. Interestingly it works fine on the simulator in this case.

I've filed a bug with Apple on the issue (#9168893).

answered Mar 22 '11 at 16:51

Ben Clayton

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Thanks for saving me hours of frustration. – hyperlogic May 20 '11 at 00:39
I worked around this by using an alias created using Finder -> right click source folder -> Make alias. It turns out that the alias caused the problem on my machine was created using "ln -s " – user547539 Mar 05 '13 at 08:58
@user547539 Ah interesting! Yes, my alias was created via ln -s. – Ben Clayton Mar 05 '13 at 12:50
That strange that they have this issue since 2011, thanks I would have never though of the sym link was creating the problem – Abu Romaïssae Apr 14 '13 at 16:06
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For viewing all symlinks in project dir do this `find ./ -type l -exec ls -l {} \;` – Victor Perov Dec 13 '13 at 16:26

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 20:51

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Just clean your producto

Menu>Product>Clean (Shift+Cmd+K)

answered Oct 15 '13 at 20:51

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 12 '12 at 06:52

I got the following message argument is invalid in response to some kind of USB weirdness. Sometimes it goes away if I unplug and replug the device, but what turns out to fix it more reliably is to start up iTunes. Usually, when I do this, the problematic device doesn't appear in the DEVICES list at first, but does after a few seconds, and once it does, the device and Xcode get along fine.

XCode 4 says, "Argument Invalid" on attempt to run project

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