Help with Signing Certs

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Hi

Certs are something I can never completely understand what does what and what is linked to what.

I recently upgraded my MacBook and lost the ability to build for iOS and Wrap for macOS. I was still able to do this on my iMac, but have now made a mess of the iMac now trying to get the MacBook working.

What I would like to do is remove all certs in apple developers website as well as the keychains on both computers .

Can anyone advise me on how I could manage this? Is there a decent website that would explain how to do a factory reset on all this and start from scratch or are there other support options?

Thanks for any help

Chris

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You seen this?

https://ohanaware.com/blog/202129/How-to-purge-and-re-install-code-signing-identities.html

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Many thanks Tim. Iā€™ll check it out

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I managed to get so far, but am stuck with reinstalling the Developer ID Application and Installer. I have 5 grayed out listed in Xcode (stating they are not on the keychain), but when I download any of the 5 from Appleā€™s Developer site, the Private key is missing. I canā€™t see anywhere on the site to remove one or all of these.

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Download the certificates from within Xcode, not the website.

Be careful how many you attempt to create. There is a limit of how many within a certain period and last I heard itā€™s a pain to get Apple to help you should you hit it.

You canā€™t. They simply disappear some time after they expire.

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Thanks for replying Tim.

Yeah, I believe I reached the 5 limit within a short while without realising.

When you say download from Xcode, I expect you mean clicking the ā€˜Download Manual Profilesā€™ in Settings>Accounts>Apple IDs? If so, I would have tried that and I tried again there (to be sure!), but the 5 Developer ID Application and Installer Certificates remain grey in the list presented when I click on ā€˜Manage Certificatesā€™

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Not that button. On the very same view, ā€œManage Certificatesā€ and then in the sheet window that opens, click the [ + ] button in the bottom left corner. Select ā€œDeveloper ID Applicationā€ and it will download and install the certificate you need for App Wrapper.

ā€œDeveloper ID Installerā€ is for building .pkg installers
ā€œMac Installer Distributionā€ is for signing Mac App Store .pkg installers

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When I press the [+], I get the message ā€œYou already have a current Developer ID Application certificate or a pending certificate request.ā€