How to disable indexing in Xcode 4?

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FarMiaplacidus picture FarMiaplacidus · Mar 22, 2011 · Viewed 29.3k times · Source

Not a long time ago I updated Xcode to version 4. This new version spent a lot of time on indexing the project (it's quite large). That's why I would like to disable indexing. Searching through Xcode help and internet gave no results.

Answer

Dave picture Dave · Aug 4, 2011

Open a terminal window and paste this command:

defaults write com.apple.dt.XCode IDEIndexDisable 1

You'll lose some features (autocomplete, jump to definition, some of the assistants won't work right). But you'll gain back ram and cpu.

For my project Xcode went from using 2 Gigs to a few hundred MB. (which I sorely needed to compile with ;))

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