Cleaning up the iPhone simulator

Question

Is there a straightforward way to clean up the directory where xcode deploys an app when building for the iPhone simulator? I have a sqlite database that gets copied into t

Answer 1

As I was explaining in a comment under the validated answer:

I was testing adding and removing calendar subscriptions. On a real device, you can remove a calendar subscription in Settings, Accounts but this menu does not exist in iOS Simulator and I did not want to reset the whole simulator.

So I ended up locally versioning my Device folder with git and perform the following commands to remove a calendar subscription after I added it:

$ git reset HEAD --hard
$ git clean -f

So the steps are:

1. Install your application on the iOS Simulator and do what you have to do
2. Identify your device in ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/ and do a cd to it, then git init to create a git repository
3. Once you want to save the state, perform git commit -a "Message"
4. Do whatever changes the settings (ex: adding a calendar subscription) and perform your tests
5. Shutdown the simulator
6. Do git reset --hard HEAD
7. Start the simulator, all changes done after git commit are gone.