At one point in my iPhone app development, I had 2 rather large video files as resources for use in the app. After some tests, I decided I didn’t want them anymore. So I deleted both from the resources folder in xcode – and I selected ‘remove and delete selected references.’ When I try to build on my iPhone or iPad, it still says “copying file opening.mov to iPhone.” And it takes up space in the build.
What is happening? I deleted all references to the file everywhere on my computer, but it still copies the file on my iDevices.
I checked the xcode project folder in finder and it’s not there!
You can go to Project->Build Phases->Copy Bundle Resources, chances are those files are still there somehow, delete them if they are.
Additionally as suggested do a product clean.