Xcode 6 keeps renaming my app's directory in iOS8 simulator after each run.

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Joseph Toronto picture Joseph Toronto · Aug 10, 2014 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

I'm running Xcode 6 Beta 5 but this has been happening since the first beta. My app's directory in the simulator keeps being renamed after each run. It took me a while to figure this out. I'm using this to get the doc's dir reference. 

NSString *folder = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,
                                                        NSUserDomainMask,
                                                        YES) lastObject];

NSLog(@"Documents Dir: %@",folder);

Now for example on the first run it'll be:

/Users/Joey/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/5B9930EE-A9B4-4B36-BABB-AA864ACAF2DE/data/Containers/Data/Application/4B10C2E4-A5C3-4C64-93B1-4069FCCB9C46/Documents

Second run now it's:

/Users/Joey/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/5B9930EE-A9B4-4B36-BABB-AA864ACAF2DE/data/Containers/Data/Application/7E9EB62D-115A-4092-AD23-CB6BA3E5E10F/Documents

Third run:

/Users/Joey/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/5B9930EE-A9B4-4B36-BABB-AA864ACAF2DE/data/Containers/Data/Application/EC8F41E8-52ED-4B10-9808-B3ACC46FC6AA/Documents

This is wreaking havoc with my app because it stores path references for certain files within the app. It's not that my NSLog statement is returning incorrect results, I verified this is what happening in Finder. It's changing the name every time. Has anyone seen this happen? Is this a "feature" that I'm misunderstanding?

Answer

Joseph Toronto picture Joseph Toronto · Aug 11, 2014

Turns out Xcode 6 does in fact change the app's UUID every run, and I'm in the wrong for storing absolute paths.

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