How to Empty Caches and Clean All Targets Xcode 4 and later

Question

Jonathan suggest here: Xcode Includes .xib files that have been deleted! that cleaning all targets and empty the caches will fix the problem with Xcode including deleted .xi

Answer 1

I found another way in addition to command+option+shift+K. In XCode 4.2 there is an organizer that can be opened from top-right icon. You can clean all archives and saved project options from there. This helped my situation (I was seeing old removed files in the mainBundle).

Answer 2

Command-Option-Shift-K to clean out the build folder. Even better, quit Xcode and clean out ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData manually. Remove all its contents because there's a bug where Xcode will run an old version of your project that's in there somewhere. (Xcode 4.2 will show you the Derived Data folder: choose Window > Organizer and switch to the Projects tab. Click the right-arrow to the right of the Derived Data folder name.)

In the simulator, choose iOS Simulator > Reset Content and Settings.

Finally, for completeness, you can delete the contents of /var/folders; some caching happens there too.

WARNING: Deleting /var/folders can cause issues, and you may need to repair or reinstall your operating system after doing so.

EDIT: I have just learned that if you are afraid to grapple with /var/folders/ you can use the following command in the Terminal to delete in a more targeted way:

rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang/ModuleCache"

EDIT: For certain Swift-related problems I have found it useful to delete ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode. You lose a lot when you do this, like your spare copies of the downloaded documentation doc sets, but it can be worth it.

Answer 3

To delete all derived data and the module cache in /var/folders use this little ruby script.

derivedDataFolder = Dir.glob(Dir.home + "/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*")
moduleCache = Dir.glob("/var/folders/**/com.apple.DeveloperTools*")
FileUtils.rm_rf derivedDataFolder + moduleCache

This just solved a fatal error: malformed or corrupted AST file: 'Unable to load module "/var/folders/ error for me.

Answer 4

Command-Option-Shift-K should do it. Alternatively, go to product menu, press the option key, now the option "Clean" will change to "Clean Build Folder ..." select that option.

Answer 5

When using a "Data Model" , there are options in the inspector to generare classes, for me this was the case as there was already a class with the existing name.

Codegen: solved it for me.

Answer 6

I had some problems with Xcode 5.1 crashing on me, when I opened the doc window.

I am not sure of the cause of it, because I was also updating docsets, while I opened the window.

Well, in Xcode 5 the modules directory now resides within the derived data folder, which I for obvious reasons didn't delete. I deleted the contents of ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ModuleCache and the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist and everything then seems to work, after I restarted Xcode.