Question

I want to copy a plist into my application bundle with Xcode 4.5.2 (or 4.6).

I select the my.plist, drag it into the project, and make sure its also in the ‘Copy Bundle Items’ phase in ‘Build Phases’. Nothing red, everything is fine.

When I now compile the project, the my.plist is not copied to the application bundle.I’ve been trying since hours now.

If I now rename the file to my.png, pull the file to Xcode, everything is fine – the my.png file is in the application bundle.

So: why isn’t the my.plist file copied to the application bundle but the my.png file?

Any insight is much appreciated.

EDIT:
Thanks for your thoughts! It appears to that there is some strange problem with this project. Any onther (new) project will work as expected here. By changing the extension from ‘plist’ to ‘plis’ everything works fine (well, a workaround I know).

Answer 1

Check the target membership of the file if you have more than one target in your project. If that doesn’t do the trick, copy the actual file into your project’s directory via Finder and then add it to the project by selecting “add files to…” from within the Xcode project browser.