Codesign error Provisioning profile cannot be found after deleting expired profile

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Tried to rebuild an app that was working just yesterday  Got a message that a profile had expired  so I removed it from the iPod and from iTunes  When I chose a new profile  one with an   in the identifier   I now get an error       Code Sign Error  Provisioning Profile  long string  can t be found    What am I missing  I looked through related questions and didn t see this scenario already

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Unfortunately this approach didn t work out for me  But here s a fix which worked for me  to get this to work you need a working project file on Subversion or so    I did roll back to an working version of my project file  As it isn t possible to revert with Xcode  Where is the   39 Revert  39  option in Xcode 4  39 s Source Control   - I used Tortoise  my Windows machine and this Tutorial  http   tortoisesvn net docs nightly TortoiseSVN en tsvn-howto-rollback html  to roll back to an older project file    As the Tutorial didn t work out for me  I just used Tortoise to save the working revision of my project file to an usb stick to port it to my mac  After that I replaced the new broken project file with the old working one  cleaned and it worked like a charm

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Project amp Targets Properties -   Don t Code Sign  -  OK -  cmd S or cmd B   Project amp Targets Properties -   Your Provision Profile -  OK Everything works again

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I just encountered this problem in my Xcode 4  To fix it  you need to put all the correct provisions into both Debug and Release config  I was trying to submit  by archiving  my app  So I just change the Debug provisions to  quot Don t Code Sign quot   and the Release provision to my app s appstore provision  This fix it and enables me to archive normally  Hope that helps

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One suggestion I ll make since no one yet has said it  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a backup of your whole  xcodeproj file BEFORE you start modifying it s contents   Screwing up the project file and having no backup will lead to a very very unpleasant experience   Being able to back out of an edit can be a godsend

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Just saw a variation on this issue  I went into the project pbxproj file as per Brad Smith s notes above  except in this case all of the PROVISIONING PROFILE lines seemed to be correct  with no occurrence of the  quot bad quot  profile string that Xcode couldn t find  However  the fix was the same  deleting ALL of the PROVISIONING PROFILE lines in project pbxproj  even though they looked  quot good quot  in theory  and then reopening the project in Xcode

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You Could remove old reference of provisioning file  Then after import new provisioning Profile and selecting Xcode builder

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To achieve Brad s solution entirely in Terminal  use these commands   cd  Xcode project parent   vi  Xcode project name  xcodeproj project pbxproj   offending provisioning profile   Enter  dd - delete the entire line Press n until no more are found Ctrl x to save and close

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Sometimes your Xcode project file gets messed up  especially if you have an old project and first created it with an older version of Xcode iPhone SDK  What you need to do is open up the project file in a text editor  search for the  long string  from your error and manually erase that line  In fact  you should just go ahead and erase any line that points to any provisioning  profiles  Then reopen the project in Xcode  go to the settings and reselect your new profile  This clears up issues like that most of the time  The lines that point to the provisioning profiles will look like this  PROVISIONING PROFILE    quot 487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB quot    quot PROVISIONING PROFILE sdk iphoneos   quot     quot 487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB quot

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Select the lines in codesigning that are blank under Any iOS SDK and select the right certificate

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Here s a simpler solution that worked for me and which doesn t require the manual editing of the project file  In Xcode  in the  quot Groups  amp  Files quot  pane  expand  quot Targets quot  and double-click on your app s target  This brings up the Info pane for the target  In the  quot Build quot  section  check the  quot code signing quot  section for any old profiles and replace with the correct one  Note that this is different from double-clicking on your project icon and changing the profile from there  Quite amazing    Ori

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I agree with Brad s answer  that you can fix this problem by editing your target project by hand  deleting any lines like this   PROVISIONING PROFILE    487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB    PROVISIONING PROFILE sdk iphoneos       487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB     However  in Xcode 4 2 and later  there is a much easier way to access this text and select and delete it  In the Project Navigator on the left  select your project  the topmost line of the Project Navigator   Now simply choose View   Version Editor   Show Version Editor  This displays your project as text  and you can search for PROVISIONING and delete the troublesome line  right there in the editor pane of Xcode

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At least in Xcode 5  this is the thing that solved the problem for me   Under provisioning profile  select the offending provisioning profile and then select a valid provisioning profile in the pull-down menu

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In my case the problem was solved by opening Window -  Organizer  selecting my device and removing the old Provisioning Profile under the  Provisioning  panel on the right  The old one was already marked with a red  x  symbol but the iPhone was still using it    Besides that profile  also the new one was showing up  with the same name  and after simply relaunching the application I had it running smoothly

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I was having issues because I updated my AdHoc provisioning profile with some new devices for use on TestFlight  Assumedly this is happening because Xcode has an old reference to your provisioning profile in either the codesigning build settings for the project or the targets  The way I fixed mine was to   Go to both target build settings and project build settings  Under code signing change all the provisioning profiles to something else  Go to devices provisioning profiles in the Organizer delete the offending profiles  then click the refresh button in the bottom right  Go back to to the target and project build settings and set your provisioning profiles to the appropriate  hopefully  newly refreshed provisioning profiles

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Just spent a hour or so doing this and with the help of Brad s advice and a few additional changes it all worked   I ve done this using the following  10 7 3  Xcode 4 3 2  iOS 5 1 btw   1  Right click on your myapp xcodeproj and select package contents  2  open project pbxproj with a text editor  don t recommend textedit as it may screw up the formatting   3  Scroll all the way down until you find    Begin XCBuildConfiguration section     4  Notice that you have a debug and release sections  5  In the release section take a look at CODE SIGN IDENTITY  amp   CODE SIGN IDENTITY sdk iphoneos    it should look something like this   CODE SIGN IDENTITY    iPhone Distribution  MyCompany LLC    CODE SIGN IDENTITY sdk iphoneos       iPhone Distribution  MyCompany LLC     6  Take a look at PROVISIONING PROFILE and  PROVISIONING PROFILE sdk iphoneos    they should look like this   PROVISIONING PROFILE    XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX    PROVISIONING PROFILE sdk iphoneos       XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX     This should match your provisioning profile in Xcode  To see if they match open Xcode   Window   Organizer   Devices   Provisioning Profiles   Right click on the profile   Reveal in Finder   The filename of the  mobileprovision is your profile id   7  Scroll down in the project pbxproj and find a second instance of the release section  The second instance of the release section should end with a comment saying    End XCBuildConfiguration section     8  make sure that the second section matches the first section so that CODE SIGN IDENTITY   CODE SIGN IDENTITY sdk iphoneos    and PROVISIONING PROFILE are all filled in

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The solution of Brad Smith worked for me  but I also had to remove the CODE SIGN IDENTITY field to make it work

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