iPhone Developers, Turn That File Vault OFF!!!

I started using a new iMac at work a few months back. Since it's a new start, I liked to give the File Vault feature a try. And that was a curse that I did not become aware of until recently.

As an iPhone developer, Xcode and iPhone Simulator are the two most frequently used pieces of software of all. When they don't work as expected, I feel really frustrated. And frustrated it is when I found that iPhone application (running on iOS 4.0) doesn't quit automatically when I try to deploy and run an updated version of app from Xcode (Build & Run by hitting Command+R). But the existing running instance enters background instead of terminating as it should. As a result, the application is update on the simulator, but the running instance is out of date. That issue made developing and debugging very difficult.

It's only yesterday that I found out File Vault was the immediate cause of this. My solution was creating an new account and start over.