I am running low on disk space and checked through a third party utility that among other things that ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData directory is taking about 22GB of disk space.
I searched stackoverflow and found this post
How can I safely delete in my ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData directory?
The accepted answer to this question suggests that I should not touch / remove folders from this directory. so what I did was
- Found an existing build project folder for an app that I have available on Appstore
- Deleted the folder from derived dir
- launched XCode 5
- Open that project
- Clean Build
- Tested and compiled it on a simulator
- ReArchived
- Everything worked. Nothing was broken.
Unless I missed something in that posts answer I want to make sure by asking experienced developers that if I delete all the folders from DerivedData it will not hurt me in building, testing and compiling those projects.