I work on a MacOS app (which has a companion iOS app) that uses Core Data with NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. The app also supports widgets and hence there is a need to migrate the persistent store within the core data stack using replacePersistentStore( at:.... During development I recently created a new model version and added a new entity, replaced some attributes etc... Working on the iOS app is fine because deleting the app clears all the data allowing me to work with a clean slate. On MacOS, I initially thought that I could simply navigate to the app group file location, delete the .sqlite file, along with the sqlite-shm and sqlite-wal. I also went and deleted the CloudKit related files. I did all of this out of pure ignorance - my expectation was that it would give me a clean slate, but it did not. This instead gave me some unpredictable behaviour, but the app was always in a bad state. the issues I saw were; • migration failure, • sqlite errors highlighting no such column: t0 - where all the
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