Xcode 4: delete top-level folder

Question

I accidentally added a folder to the top level of the workspace, because it is displayed in Xcode 4. That is, the folder is now next to my project at the top level, and I would like to delete it but I don’t understand how to do it. When I try, the delete option is disabled. I read somewhere that after creating a workspace, such a folder can be deleted. At the moment, I want to try to avoid this.

Is the metadata for this folder stored in the project.pbxproj file? I need to check the changes that I made for the project.pbxproj file, but not the metadata for the top-level folder I'm trying to delete.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I also had this problem. To fix this, I manually deleted the section related to my unwanted group from the project.xcworkspace file in my .xcodeproj package:

• In Finder, right-click on your package .xcodeproj and select Show Package Contents.
• Open the project.xcworkspace file in your favorite text editor.

• Completely delete the xml element named "Group" for the group you want to delete. I had to remove the following (my group was called New Group):

  <Group location = "container:" name = "New Group"> </Group> 

Answer 2

This may be a specific Xcode (mine is 6), but in my case, it took another step to complement Stefan's answer:

• Right-click .xcodeproj in Finder -> Show Package Contents.
• Same thing for project.xcworkspace inside: right click -> Show package contents.
• After that, open content.xcworkspacedata strong> with a text editor (by default, TextEdit is fine)

• Remove tag :

   <Group location = "container:" name = "New Group"> ... </Group>