Installed version dissappeared

[yakimant]

Xcode 7.3 disappeared somehow from the list of installed version(
Please help to return it.

$ xcversion installed
7.2     (/Applications/Xcode7.2.app)

$ xcversion selected
Xcode 7.3
Build version 7D175

$ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode-7.3.app/Contents/Developer

$ mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -name kMDItemVersion /Applications/Xcode-7.3.app
kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.dt.Xcode"
kMDItemFSName             = "Xcode-7.3.app"
kMDItemVersion            = "7.3"

$ mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -name kMDItemVersion /Applications/Xcode.app
kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.dt.Xcode"
kMDItemFSName             = "Xcode-7.3.app"
kMDItemVersion            = "7.3"

$ mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -name kMDItemVersion /Applications/Xcode7.2.app
kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.dt.Xcode"
kMDItemFSName             = "Xcode7.2.app"
kMDItemVersion            = "7.2"

$ ls -asld /Applications/Xcode*
0 drwxr-xr-x  3 qa  admin  102 Mar  3 05:55 /Applications/Xcode-7.3.app
8 lrwxr-xr-x  1 qa  admin   27 Apr 11 13:04 /Applications/Xcode.app -> /Applications/Xcode-7.3.app
0 drwxr-xr-x  4 qa  admin  136 Apr  6 12:53 /Applications/Xcode7.2.app

[yakimant]

It appeared back. Closing for now.
If somebody knows, how to fix it manually - please comment here!

[neonichu]

xcversion uses Spotlight to find installed Xcodes, so my theory would be that reindexing was still happening. I also noticed Spotlight being unreliable once you're low on diskspace.

[yakimant]

@neonichu, it would be nice to reopen the ticket, as we have this issue from time to time.
And because we select xcode version before every build it can break the build, corrupt the ticket and spend devs/qa time.

Is there any other way to find out installed Xcodes other than unreliable Spotlight?

[yakimant]

@neonichu, i've fixed the issue by adding /Applications folder to Spotlight exclude list and removing it back. After 5 minutes missing Xcode appeared back.

I like xcode-install tool for installing Xcode and simulators, but I will rely on xcode-select for switching.