Xcode Quits Unexpectedly Every Time I Open My Project

Xcode quits unexpectedly every time I open my project

Xcode stores some user state information inside the Xcode project “file”, which is really a folder. That state information might have become corrupted. You can normally throw away everything inside your .xcodeproj folder except the project.pbxproj file. This might fix your problem.

Open up the folder containing your .xcodeproj file. Right-click or control-click the .xcodeproj file and choose “Show Package Contents”. Then throw away everything except the project.pbxproj file.

If you know what an Xcode workspace is, and you're actually making use of it, you might not have a project.xcworkspace file to throw away, or you might not want to throw it away. But if you don't know what an Xcode workspace is, then you're not using it so you can just throw away project.xcworkspace. Xcode will recreate it automatically.

Xcode Error Report Xcode quit unexpectedly

It seems that Xcode cannot restore the tabs / files you have opened the last time see Method: -_restoreSelectedTabsByIdentifierFromStateSaving:.

The latest ui state including opened files, curent target etc. is stored in the UserInterfaceState.xcusertate. You can find the file in your Xcode project folder under:

//.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcuserdata/.xcuserdatad/UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate

Just remove the file e.g. via rm and Xcode shall work again.

Xcode Crashing When Opening Project File

The crash is generally a sign the project file has been corrupted. Here's a list of possible things you can do to try to fix it.

1. Fix a corrupted *.pbxproj file

Caused by a merge conflict

If you are using version control, it might be caused by a merge conflict that has not yet been resolved.

1. Using Finder, open the directory that holds your project.
2. Right click the project file YOUR_PROJECT_NAME.xcodeproj and Open With your preferred text editing tool such as Sublime Text.
3. Look for merge conflicts which are usually marked using a series of ========= bars.
4. Resolve the merge conflicts manually or remove the changes of one side.

Caused by unreadable XML

If that fails go into the file and quickly scroll through to see if anything seems out of place - it should generally be readable XML. You could even try an XML validator against it to see if anything amiss was found.

2. Reset your workspace

1. Using Finder, open the directory that holds yor project.
2. Right click the project file MyProject.xcodeproj and choose Show Package Contents.
3. Delete the xcuserdata folder, which should contain a folder with your username on it.
4. Repeats step 2 and 3 for your workspace file MyProject.workspace

As elaborated by KennyWinker and Paul R on the answers below.

3. Recreate your Xcode project

Note that this should be your last resort as it is quite tedious to do for large projects.

Lastly you could simply re-create it. That might seem like a big pain, but basically you could just create a new project and drag everything under the "Classes" folder into Xcode to start using it (don't forget to also add the frameworks you need).

Xcode crashing on a specific project

Do one thing, clear off/delete all the derived data for Xcode and then open your project. That should fix the issue.

Also to report a bug to Apple you can simply go to https://bugreporter.apple.com/ and login with apple credentials and and they'd get back to you in like couple of days.

Also for derived data do the following:
You can go to File > Workspace Settings if you are in a workspace environment or File > Project Settings for a regular project environment.

Then click over the little grey arrow under Derived data section and select your project folder to delete it.

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