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I removed an older version of Xcode following the instructions in How to fully remove Xcode 4 and then installed version 4.3 from AppStore. But now /developer directory is missing.

I can find the same directory structure in /applications/xcode.app/contents/Developer/. Is /developer just a link to that directory and how can I create it again?

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According to the XCode 4.3 release notes, the /developer directory is no longer needed.

/Developer No Longer Exists

The simplification afforded by repackaging Xcode 4.3 as a single app bundle eliminates the need for the /Developer directory containing prior versions of Xcode. As a result, the Install Xcode application and the uninstall-devtools command line script are also no longer needed.

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  • So how do you uninstall Xcode ? My Mac App Store is stuck on "Installing..." when I tried to update my Xcode to the 5.1 SDK. Launching Xcode is just crashing it. Should I just drag it into trash like other apps? – Tejaswi Yerukalapudi Mar 20 '12 at 21:02
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    Yes, with XCode 4.3 you can just drag it to the Trash like other apps. – jonkroll Mar 20 '12 at 22:10
  • Interesting. My xcode update was stuck at 1 minute remaining for half an hour and I wasn't able to drag the existing xcode.app into trash. I did an rm -rf on `/Applications/Xcode.app` and reinstalled Xcode which worked, so thanks! – Tejaswi Yerukalapudi Mar 20 '12 at 23:28
  • I just installed Lion and now I'm downloading Xcode from the app store. It seems to be installing to the /Developer/Applications folder! (on launch pad, it appears as 'downloading' inside an iOS-like folder together with the existing Interments, DashCode and QuartzComposer) . I did this before on another Mac but then it installed a new copy in /Applications. What's going on? – Nicolas Miari Apr 08 '12 at 07:19
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    I actually had the whole bunch of things in /Developer folder, like Qt stuff, CUDA and GPU computing kits. The Xcode 4.3 installer just blindly moved all that to recycle bin, so I had to restore the folder. – Archie Jun 12 '12 at 21:47
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The /Developer directory is no longer used by Xcode as jonkroll noted.

If you are looking for command line tools, you can install them using the Components tab of the Downloads preferences panel.

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One easy way to get to it is to right click on an existing framework that you have imported in your project; then choose "open in finder". Then you can hit option + the up arrow key on your key board to traverse up to the developer folder (e.g if you want to peruse the contents of your simulator documents folder etc...) & make a short cut to it for direct navigation..

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Yes you're right, now /Developer directory is embedded into XCode.app. So you have to make an alias to this new directory or change your path to this new folder.

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  • This comment helped a lot. The full path is /Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer (some older books refer to the /Developer directory for certain things, like looking for supported platforms) – Mirkules May 08 '13 at 20:50
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Switching directories worked for me:

sudo xcode-select -switch /
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