Provisioning Profiles menu item missing from Xcode

Question

After spending a whole day installing a fresh copy of Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion), Xcode 5, fixing provisioning profiles, certificates, creating new ones, I finally managed to get my applications running on my iPad again. The problem is that in Xcode 5 I don't have a menu item for Library - Provisioning Profiles, and I don't know what could have happened. I restarted the computer, tried some things, but I really have no idea what I could do. How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

If you like to manually manage your profiles (mostly to clean up):

• Open Windows/Devices in Xcode 6
• Select your device
• Show Provisioning Profiles:
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• You'll get + and - buttons to add/remove profiles:
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No longer supported ... you can also download Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility 3.5 for Mac OS X, it still has "Provisioning Profiles" and works with Xcode 5 -- it's now gone from Apples site but you can find an alternative download link in @suda's comment.

Answer 2

Stupid as it may sound but all "Provisioning Profiles" re-appear under "Organizer - Devices" once you connect a real device.

Answer 3

For me, the refresh in xcode 5 prefs->accounts was doing nothing. At one point it showed me three profiles so I thought I was one refresh away, but after the next refresh it went back to just one profile, so I abandoned this method.

If anyone gets this far and is still struggling, here's what I did:

1. Close xcode 5
2. Open xcode 4.6.2
3. Go to Window->Organizer->Provisioning Profiles
4. Press Refresh arrow on bottom right

When I did this, everything synced up perfectly. It even told me what it was downloading each step of the way like good software does. After the sync completed, I closed xcode 4.6.2, re-opened xcode 5 and went to preferences->accounts and voila, all of my profiles are now available in xocde 5.