Problem installing ad-hoc app on iphone: "resources have been modified."

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Antonio picture Antonio · Sep 11, 2009 · Viewed 21.3k times · Source

I can install an app on my development iPhone compiled with "Debug" configuration using my Ad Hoc provisioning and everything works OK. But when I build it using "Release" configuration, iTunes says: The application XXX was not installed on the iPhone "YYYY" because its resources have been modified.

I've never seen this message before. Does anybody know what it means?

Thanks!

Antonio

Answer

user195337 picture user195337 · Oct 23, 2009

We had the same problem during our first Beta. Someone on Windows dug in the xxx.app folder then Explorer created a Thumbs.db file inside and, boom, he got the message "The application XXX was not installed on the iPhone "YYYY" because its resources have been modified." when he tried to install.

He had to remove the app from iTunes, deleted all the Thumbs.db from xxx.app and then it worked.

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