Error: The file “Info.plist” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file

Question

I have move my project from another machine with latest Xcode installed in it. But now when i'm running project it giving me error as

Info.plist:0: error: reading data: The file “Info.plist” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.

Previously project running with no issue but now on new system project has error. Previous version was Xcode 7.3.

Solution 1

This error happens when the system can not locate the info.plist file from your file hierarchy.

Consider this situation: I moved the info.plist file to the group "Others" like this..

Goto Target - Tap Build Settings - Find "info.plist"

Here, the system will search the info.plist in AddModifyDelete folder. But the actual file is under AddModifyDelete/Others. So, change it to AddModifyDelete/Others/info.plist

Now it should work!!

Note: This is also applicable to entitlements file. We should define the right path for both info.plist & entitlements file to avoid this error.

Solution 2

Please try either of the two ways :-

First Try :

The solution for this particular instance of the error was “Info.plist couldn't be opened because there is no such file” was that I had deleted all of the files in the "Project Tests" folder, but was still had "Project Tests" listed under my targets. After deleting the "tests" target, the project built successfully.

Last Try :

1) Go to :- App Target 2) See the Identify ---and choose the Plist

Comments

[vadian]

Check the path of Info.plist in Build Settings. It's a relative path and probably doesn't match the new location.

[Sneha]

find info.plist file & Remove reference from project & add that file again to project.. This worked for me...

[Lalit]

Tried both way but no success yet...

[nivritgupta]

duplicate question see the answer here stackoverflow.com/questions/26189404/…

[Ankit]

Hey lalit , is your previous machine is available from where you shifted your code.If it is available copy the plist from that code and remove the reference from here and paste it.

[Ankit]

You're welcome. If my answer helped you then vote me up.

[Confused]

@Thor Welcome :)