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After two hours on the phone with Apple support - they hung up on me. I am trying to create a provisioning profile so I can develop an App. I was able to do so mannually in my online account - I even downloaded it to my computer. However, Xcode cannot recognize it. Further, the "automatic" version simply does not work with my computer. Is it possible to use this horrible product? All I wan to do is create a provisioning profile. But, the error won't go away and Xcode cannot find the profile I created. Any advice on how to develop in this trash IDE? Any idea why Apple treats its customers so poorly?