The application is not installed ... because its resources have been changed

Question

One user cannot install my application because he continues to receive an error:

The application "myapp" was not installed on the iPhone "myPhone" because its resources have been modified 

I read that the error is due to adding files after creating the application. I have not added any files. Last week, the user could install ad hoc without any problems. I tried to clean and rebuild without any luck. As a developer, ad hoc installs on my iTunes device, even after deleting all profiles. Any ideas?

Answer 1

IF this is an adhoc distribution, I would clean and rebuild it and then provide it to the user again, as well as the provisioning profile: basically make sure they have a clean set of everything.

There is also a problem with Vista / Win7, where windows damage Zip. It might be worth distributing it as an ipa file rather than a zip

Answer 2

For me, the problem was that .Double files are added to each directory on a shared network drive. First of all, we are a Windows environment, and Mac saved. Duplicate files on disk in each directory.

Literally, to fix the problem mentioned above, I simply deleted the .Double files in each directory (the application copied to iTunes), and he fixed it.

Hope this helps someone!

Answer 3

This problem also occurs when the person trying to install the .app file double-clicks the appname.app folder (it was displayed as a folder in the Windows environment). When they do this, a thumbnail file is created in the Windows environment. This, in turn, means that the resources have been changed and therefore an error. We always instructed our customers not to double-click on the .app folder when they extract it from a zip file.