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marcopolo
marcopolo

Reputation: 2042

Where does xcode store project file locations / recent projects?

When you load up xcode it tells what the recent files/projects you worked on are. Where does Xcode store this information?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4093

Answers (2)

sivi
sivi

Reputation: 11114

I don't know if that's what the question meant but i was looking to add image and needed the project external directory so this is how i found it in a really simple way:

you can see the full path in the right side of the screen when you click like mine was images:

/Users/user_name/Desktop/app_name

the first / can tell you it's a unix based system

and you can use the finder in mac to find this location. That's what it's for.

Upvotes: 0

Paul Woidke
Paul Woidke

Reputation: 928

I believe they're stored in com.apple.Xcode NSRecentXCProjectDocuments. This is part of the "Expert" preferences, which are not exposed through the GUI.

This may vary slightly based on what you are trying to do. For example, $ defaults write com.apple.Xcode NSRecentDocumentsLimit 20 will show 20 recent projects (rather than the default 10).

As for accessing the list itself, the only thing I could find was the following code in the Quick Search Box source code (though it looks like it might require an external library):

 if ([appIdentifier isEqualToString:@"com.apple.Xcode"]) {
          NSArray *recentXCodeProjects
            = GTMCFAutorelease(
                CFPreferencesCopyValue(CFSTR("NSRecentXCProjectDocuments"),
                                       (CFStringRef)appIdentifier,
                                       kCFPreferencesCurrentUser,
                                       kCFPreferencesAnyHost));

Upvotes: 1

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