Could not load the image referenced from a nib in the bundle running on device

Question

SplitView[1290:307] Could not load the \"canary04.png\" image referenced from a nib in the bundle with identifier \"xx.co.mycompany.ipad.SplitView\"

Answer 1

what worked for me is making sure the file's owner in interface builder has a "view" outlet.

From IB, select file's owner from "Placeholders", then in "Connections Inspector" make sure the view outlet in connected to the main view of current XIB.

This happened because i removed the main view at some point and forgot to reconnect my new view.

Hope it helps somebody else.

Answer 2

The filesystem on iOS devices is case sensitive, so it's quite possibly a case issue. (Mac OS X is generally case in-sensitive, hence you've not seen this issue in the simulator.)

As such, check that you're using the same case in the code as the filename itself.

Answer 3

Tried each and every answer here and nothing, so here's another glitch, your icon name cannot have dots (.) because if it does (and Xcode allows you to do that!) while the icons show well in storyboard, they won't load either in the simulator or the device.

Answer 4

The easy way

1 Simply do a grep in command shell to find the string of the referenced image:

grep -R 'canary04.png' YourMainDirectoryFolder/*

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2 It will give you (for example) an output like this:

YourProject/en.lproj/YourViewController.xib: 

<textField borderStyle="roundedRect" background="canary04.png" id="19">

3 You now know which nib file and which element it is. Just go in the file and remove the reference.

Answer 5

It might not be added to your Target and in XCode 4 you can do it like this:

• In your Project View, click your project name
• Select your target and select "Build Phases" tab
• Drag your image file into your "Copy Bundle Resources" section

That fixed it for me.

Answer 6

Save image as PNG-24. It works for me