UITableView refuses to populate on my Device - iphone

I am using a Data.plist file to populate my UITableView/Navigation-based Application with data. it works perfectly on the simulator, and it shows up all 261 names, with the subtitle. The detail view also works 100%.
But, no matter what I do, reboot, clean, comment out, it refuses to show up on my Device. (iPhone 3G, unfortunately. Soon to be iPhone 4).
I have a Footer on my Table View that calculates the amount of Cells and totals them up for me. "Movies: 261" is what it shows. Yes, my app is an in-house only app that is my DVD Index.
But, on the Device, it shows "Movies: 0" even though the Data.plist is there, and everything should be working.
Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Can anyone help me?
Thank-you.

Sorry, problem fixed. Turns out the iPhone itself is CaSe SeNsItIvE where as the Simulator is not. So, if the PLIST file you're using is called "Data.plist" and it's referenced as "data.plist" in your code, it will NOT populate on the Device.
I hope this helps everyone who had the same problem as I did. :)
Thanks,
BenBen

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Hope that somebody knowledgeable could help.
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iOS: Crash when keyboard is used...?

Pretty simple bug:
Pressing any key on my Mac's keyboard causes an "EXC_BAD_ACCESS" error to occur when running an app on the simulator. Unless I'm entering data into a text field that is, where it works fine.
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Try to run your app with "Guard Malloc" on. You find this setting when you go to
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lashes) -> under Memeory management.
This will show you the crash point where it happens and you should be able to find the reason much more easily

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First of all I want to say that I'm I aware that my question is probably way too vague to answer and may be closed/down-voted. I just hope for some inspiring brain-storming on possible solutions.
Here's the story:
My app was crashing on iPad 2, but not on iPad 1. I've fixed the crash related to unarchiving nib and now I have a very strange problem - my universal app still runs without any problems on 1st gen iPad with iOS 4.2.1 and 4.3.3, but not on (some/all?) iPads 2 with 4.3.3. Unfortunately I don't have an access to iPad 2 with iOS < 4.3.3 to test further and narrow down the problem.
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Anyone has a slightest idea how to investigate this problem?
EDIT: BTW: My iPad 2 is giving me hard time as it drops Wi-Fi connection very often. Other people are also reporting this kind of "feature". Can it be that it's just something wrong with my iPad 2?
EDIT2: the app is also not correctly displayed on iOS 3.2, 4.2 and 4.3.3 Simulator (via XCode 4), but gets displayed correctly on iOS 3.2, 4.2 Simulator via Xcode 3. Strange, isn't it?
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You identify the general problem area. Could it be presentModalViewController in your case?
Then about halfway through the code in question, you set a breakpoint/write a message to a log file/play a sound/send a mail/tweet/whatever it takes to verify that your code has come that far without a crash.
Run it and see if your message has been produced.
If it has been produced, the problem is not in the first half, so it must be in the second half (a log message at the end of the identified problem area is useful, too, just to make sure that the crash actually happens before that).
On the other hand, if there is no trace of your log message, then the crash must occur in the first half, and you can rule out the second half of your code for this particular problem.
Now you repeat the algorithm by setting your breakpoint/log message about halfway into the culprit half you just identified.
Repeat until you find the problem. It won't take many iterations.
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Some things I have checked.
I have not changed anything in the code.
Image is added to the project and in same folder.
I have one more cell image which is working fine.
Thank you in advance.
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