Question

I downloaded and installed Xcode 4.5 Beta earlier this morning, opened it briefly and then quit it. No specific reason I quit it, I just wanted to make sure it would open and open a current project, which it did.

I’ve since needed to open it again, but I cannot find it ANYWHERE on my Mac. I tried spotlight search, looking in HD/Developer/, HD/Apps, but cannot see it anywhere. Not downloaded a beta of Xcode before so don’t know if it’s sat in some super secret location? Haha.

I’m on OS X 10.7.4 if that helps.

Many thanks,

Nathan

Answer 1

Right click on the icon of an application in the Dock and select Options -> Show in Finder to look up the path of an executable.

To be specific about Xcode 4.5 Beta: It is installed with the custom name Xcode45-DP4.app in your Applications folder. The custom name prevents overriding the current release version Xcode 4.4.

EDIT: If you can’t find the Xcode 4.5 anymore maybe you have just launched the app directly from the DMG and now have unmounted it?