CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1244069
user1244069

Reputation: 95

XCode does not let me change the code

I have been working on a project and since last week xcode does not let me make any changes in my xib file and another page in the project. However I can make changes in other pages. When I open it as root I can make changes in main.xib as well. What can cause this? It is very annoying.

This is what I get:

“MainWindow.xib” is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your changes. Do you want to unlock it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 577

Answers (1)

trojanfoe
trojanfoe

Reputation: 122411

Sounds like you have lost ownership of your own files (or some reason). You can confirm this from the command line by simply listing them (ls), for example:

$ ls -l
total 184
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andy  staff   2731  7 Dec  2010 AppDelegate.h
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andy  staff   3976  7 Dec  2010 AppDelegate.m
-rwxr-xr-x  1 andy  staff   2625  7 Dec  2010 Choices.h
...

My username is 'andy', so I already own these files, however if I didn't, I could change ownership of the whole directory hierarchy using chown as root:

$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  12 andy  staff  408 15 Dec  2010 CFLocalServer
drwxr-xr-x  23 andy  staff  782 18 Dec  2010 GridMenu
drwxr-xr-x  12 andy  staff  408 16 Dec  2010 Hello
drwxr-xr-x  16 andy  staff  544 18 Dec  2010 NSTableViewBinding
drwxr-xr-x  18 andy  staff  612 18 Dec  2010 OpenCL_OceanWave
$ sudo chown -R andy:staff *
Password:
$

You can do this using Finder, but that isn't so easy to explain.

Ultimately you need to find out why you lost ownership as currently you are not in control of your own machine, it is in control of you.

Upvotes: 1

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