Mac Terminal error: -bash: /Users/tim/.profile: No such file or directory

Question

Every time I open a new Terminal window I see the following.

-bash: /Users/tim/.profile: No such file or directory 

I have no idea why this is happening or where to look to fix it; my profile is located at /Users/tim/.bash_profile not /Users/tim/.profile

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

This happened to me as well and I noticed that at the top of my .bash_profile it had:

source ~/.profile 

My understanding is that on MacOS / OS X .bash_profile is given priority over .profile so the latter file isn't required.

To fix therefore I simply removed source ~/.profile from the top of the file.

Hope that helps.

Edit: original poster commented that he just created a blank .profile to solve this as well.

Answer 2

I met the same issue today, i guess it's because i use the cleaning app and the app considered this file was a waste of space so deleted it. touch ~/.profile helps me.