Why are my Xcode plugins (such as clang format) installed with Alcatraz no longer working after updating to new version of Xcode?

Question

Today I updated to Xcode 6.3.2 and I can\'t run the Clang code formatting – it seems like it\'s not even installed. Everytime I update Xcode, I have to reinstall Alcatraz and mo

Answer 1

This script both updates the UDIDs for your plugins and ensures that you are prompted to load bundles:

#!/bin/bash
xcodeUUID=`defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUID`
echo $xcodeUUID
xcodeVersion=`defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString`
echo $xcodeVersion

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -name Info.plist -maxdepth 3 | xargs -I{} defaults write {} DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add $xcodeUUID

defaults delete com.apple.dt.Xcode DVTPlugInManagerNonApplePlugIns-Xcode-$xcodeVersion

Answer 2

You could use this script to update your Xcode's plugin after update (works fine with Xcode 7.3):

#!/bin/bash
xcodeUUID=`defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUID`
echo $xcodeUUID
find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -name Info.plist -maxdepth 3 | xargs -I{} defaults write {} DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add $xcodeUUID

or copy from my gist https://gist.github.com/MaciejGad/86302b6b8bdb1ee25115

Answer 3

Use the general code for "all version" of Xcode in terminal,then restart Xcode ,all will be right:

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -name Info.plist -maxdepth 3 | xargs -I{} defaults write {} DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info.plist DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUID

Please attention that the code have combined the code of other answers.

If the version of your Xcode is 6.3.2,the code above is equal to

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -name Info.plist -maxdepth 3 | xargs -I{} defaults write {} DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add E969541F-E6F9-4D25-8158-72DC3545A6C6

When your Xcode is 6.3 or 6.3.1 ,is equal to:

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins -name Info.plist -maxdepth 3 | xargs -I{} defaults write {} DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add 9F75337B-21B4-4ADC-B558-F9CADF7073A7

You can find that the difference is the code at the end,it's the uuid of Xcode,so we can get the new uuid of Xcode use this

 defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUID

and change it at the end of that code.

If this still not work,you may have not chosen "load bundle" in the alert of Alcatraz

If you have chosen "skip bundle",you can do this

1. reload Alcatraz
2. the alert of Alcatraz will appear again, choice load bundle
3. use the code above in thermal
4. reload Xcode
5. successfully