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Anyone can help me.Actually i'm 6 month kid for ios app development,this is my first app to submit in appstore.When i'm trying to generate the ad_hoc distribution IPA,it shows error(as like the below screenshot).But for appstore IPA generated successfully,i'm so confused.....what a magic this!

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I have tried the follwing things To solve this problem:

1.Deleted all my mac keychain certificates.
2.Delete all xcode caches and and provisioning profiles and also deleted the developer account from xcode.

and restarted my mac... then,

1.Reinstalled the certifcates in keychain from exported .P12 from another mac

2.login in xcode preferences accounts tab.... and refresh it. it downlods all provisioning profiles from my developer account.

Status: Not working,still the same issue....all of another projects of my mac and appstore ipa too.

Even i have generated new developer certificate and updated all my project provisioning profiles.still have the same issue...,then try with it new bundle id and new provisioning profiles..i can't got it!

Bcoz of this problem i can't generete ipa for allof another app from my mac..for this issue i wasted entirely 2 working days.totally disturbed.....

Once i solve this then only i can sleep well.pls help me ,thanks in advance to you....

learnig kid
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  • Have u created separate distribution certificate for App Store not adhoc distribution. – Uma Madhavi Apr 27 '16 at 06:29
  • But in another person mac, same app i can generate the ipa,for my mac..i can't – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 06:29
  • yes,i have generate new distribution certificate too,entire things are new(bundle id,developer and distribution certficates and provisioning profiles).... – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 06:29
  • check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25862917/why-am-i-getting-an-error-failed-to-locate-or-generate-matching-signing-assets – Uma Madhavi Apr 27 '16 at 06:32
  • ya exactly the same link i refered and process yesterday... – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 06:39
  • hi,in this link ( https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-accounts_preferences/articles/import_signing_assets.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40013306-CH9-SW1 ) how do i process the 4th step as .developerprofile extension,may i know pls – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 06:44

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I was having same trouble few weeks back. Though I haven't yet figured out the exact issue behind it but I found that exporting an .ipa file via commandline works.

  1. Archive your project using your desired build settings.
  2. Locate the .xarchive file in finder (DON'T follow the usual procedure from this point).
  3. Copy it and paste it to your project directory (Where your .xcodeproj file is). (Though I usually rename it to remove all the spaces from the name as well)
  4. cd to your project directory in terminal
  5. Run following Command:
xcodebuild -exportArchive  -archivePath  YourArchiveName.xcarchive -exportPath YourIpaName.ipa   -exportFormat ipa -exportProvisioningProfile YOUR_PROVISION_PROFILE_NAME

Your .ipa file will be generated in your project directory. Use it as you will.

For example if My archive name was mySillyApp and I wanted to create an ad hoc ipa from it named mySillyApp with provisioning profile named MySillyProfile, I'd run it like this

xcodebuild -exportArchive  -archivePath  mySillyApp.xcarchive -exportPath mySillyApp.ipa   -exportFormat ipa -exportProvisioningProfile MySillyProfile

NOTE: Even though this doesn't fix the issue of xcode but it gets the ipa. Just thought it would help someone looking for a quick way to get the ad hoc build, who doesn't have the time to figure out what's wrong with Xcode.

NSNoob
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  • Thanks a lot NSNoob,its working fine.how can i generate the appstore ipa like this manner. – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 09:55
  • Archive using desired credentials, get the archive, do same steps. Just make sure you mention your app store provisioning profile in terminal command. – NSNoob Apr 27 '16 at 09:58
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    Thanks a lot NSNOOB,its perfect :) – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 10:05
  • Not really mate. More like a tape fix. You may have noticed that even though this generates ipa faster than usual way but the resulting ipa takes more size than usual ipa. Somewhat like 20% increase in MBs. Somehow compression doesn't work well with cmdline build. Which is why you shouldn't be content with this way and find the real issue. I will update the answer if I do as well. – NSNoob Apr 27 '16 at 10:07
  • But i have a doubt,How it works smartly and why the usual procedure is not working....let me know – learnig kid Apr 27 '16 at 10:08
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If you are doing this for distribution environment, and previously if you have already created the distribution certificate from different mac then

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/MaintainingCertificates/MaintainingCertificates.html

After doing this just restart your XCode and give try

Hope this will help you!

Suhas Arvind Patil
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