title: error while trying to load visual studio project on Mac
body: <p>I'm running visual studio on mac and when trying to load a project created on a windows VS I'm getting the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error while trying to load project
    '/Volumes/Storage/LocalStorage/Projects/WebDev/engage-api/Engage.DataAccess/Engage.DataAccess.csproj':
    Object reference not set to an instance of an object</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/khTzI.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/khTzI.png" alt="visual studio error screenshot"></a></p>
  
  <p>The most similar issue I could find on SO (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34084003/visual-studio-2015-error-object-reference-not-set-to-an-instance-of-an-object">here</a>) has a solution that is windows specific. It essentially says to clear the VS cache. I'd like to do the same thing for my issue but I can't find the VS cache on my Mac machine.</p>
  
  <h3>The Question</h3>
  
  <p>Where are the VS cache files on Mac so I can delete them?
  <strong>OR</strong> any other solutions to this error?</p>
  
  <h3>What I've Done</h3>
  
  <p>Not much...not that I haven't tried but haven't found any solutions to try. I looked through <code>~/Library</code> and the Visual Studio application content files for any obvious cache files but could not spot any I felt comfortable deleting.</p>