This NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores (schema mismatch or migration failure). It cannot perform a save operation

You don't have to do the migration yourself here. You do have to add a new version of the data model. You can't edit the xcdatamodel and expect Core Data to just use the new version. You need to keep your existing model, create a new version, and make your changes in the new version. You must always have a version of the model that matches the persistent store file.

You create a new version by selecting the xcdatamodel model file in Xcode's file browser, going to the "Editor" menu, and selecting "Add Model Version..."

I work on a project and faced a similar problem, it seems that the former developer forgot to pass these two options for a lightweight migration. I passed in the second one and the migration completed successfully.

You request automatic lightweight migration using the options dictionary you pass in addPersistentStoreWithType:configuration:URL:options:error:, by setting values corresponding to both the NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption and the NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption keys to YES:

NSError *error = nil;NSURL *storeURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Model" withExtension:@"momd"];NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *psc = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel:managedObjectModel]NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption, [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption, nil];BOOL success = [psc addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType                configuration:nil URL:storeURL                options:options error:&error];if (!success) {  // Handle the error.}

In my case, I had changed the name of the xcdatamodel inside the xcdatamodeld package. I needed to revert the name change in order to remove the error.