Xcode 9 Crashing while setting a Texture in SKScene in Spritekit

Question

I am building a game in Spritekit with Xcode currently. After updating to Xcode 9 I've found that every time I set a texture through the .sks file, Xcode crashes instantly. I've restarted my computer, updated the app, reloaded the textures and nothing changed. I have the 2017 Macbook Prof 13" w/ touch bar. Here are the diagnostics:

Process:               Xcode [577]
Path:                  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Identifier:            com.apple.dt.Xcode
Version:               9.0.1 (13249)
Build Info:            IDEFrameworks-13249000000000000~2
App Item ID:           497799835
App External ID:       823984564
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Xcode [577]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2017-10-22 17:30:06.029 -0400
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G29)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        0537A8C3-9FB2-836A-088B-E5D2B7FEB3EB


Time Awake Since Boot: 100 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: SKCRenderer_resource_queue

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes:       KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000012ceef7b8
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Bus error: 10
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xa
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]

VM Regions Near 0x12ceef7b8:
    MALLOC_LARGE           000000012ceaf000-000000012ceef000 [  256K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  
--> mapped file            000000012ceef000-000000012cf22000 [  204K] r--/rw- SM=COW  
    MALLOC_LARGE           000000012cf31000-000000012cf71000 [  256K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  

Application Specific Information:
Sending userDidChangeValue: to <SKInspectorTextureProperty: 0x7fadb2219440> from <NSComboBox: 0x7fadb221ad80>
ProductBuildVersion: 9A1004
Performing @selector(userDidChangeValue:) from sender NSComboBox 0x7fadb221ad80

Answer 1

Strip the metadata from the image before setting it as texture.

For example, using ImageMagick:

convert oldImage.png -strip newImage.png