{"id":241,"date":"2014-06-17T20:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2014-08-26T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T08:36:25","slug":"codekit-mac-auto-compiling-compass-upon-file-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/codekit-mac-auto-compiling-compass-upon-file-change\/","title":{"rendered":"CodeKit for Mac not auto-compiling Compass upon file change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After purchasing and upgrading from CodeKit 1 to CodeKit 2, I noticed that my SCSS files were not automatically compiling upon file change. I tried absolutely everything, and simply could not get it to work after hours of debugging. This is one of my favourite features of Compass, and I love the simplicity that CodeKit adds to the feature (i.e. not having to manually poll for changes in terminal).<\/p>\n<h3>Some things I tried, that didn&#8217;t work (but may work for you?):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reboot computer (this wouldn&#8217;t be a techie how-to guide without this point, would it?)<\/li>\n<li>Check your drive for permissions issues, and then repair them if present (disk utility for Mac)<\/li>\n<li>Add your Codekit website folders to privacy in spotlight settings, and then remove them again. This will\u00a0get them reindexed by the OS.<\/li>\n<li>Use external libraries for CodeKit (SASS + Compass)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these things made a difference. In a last ditch attempt to get CodeKit working again (I was seriously close to going back to using terminal for compiling my CSS), I thought I&#8217;d try and rename my main sites folder (equivalent to HTdocs, but mine is at \/username\/&lt;sites&gt;\/, but it wouldn&#8217;t change! See below&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>How I fixed the issue<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unable to rename the folder, as I was, then simply copy your sites (aka htdocs) directory and paste it back in, then rename it to the original (I&#8217;d recommend first renaming your original to something like &#8220;htdocs_old&#8221; or whatever, just in case). So eventually you&#8217;re left with an exact duplicate of the folder, at exactly the same path and filename. This worked for me! My SCSS finally started automatically compiling upon file save.<\/p>\n<h3>Still stuck?<\/h3>\n<p>The above is related to permissions in some way, but I didn&#8217;t stick around long enough to figure out how or why. If you&#8217;ve tried all the suggestions above and still can&#8217;t get it working, then feel free to leave a message below and I&#8217;ll see if I can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After purchasing and upgrading from CodeKit 1 to CodeKit 2, I noticed that my SCSS files were not automatically compiling upon file change. I tried absolutely everything, and simply could not get it to work after hours of debugging. 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