Transferring Apple dev account & certificate to new machine

Question

I've recently attempted to transfer my apple dev certificate to a new mac, however, the provisioning profiles are appearing as valid signing identity not found.

I imported my developer account into Xcode5 and when I deploy a build, I get the option to fix the issue of not having a valid signing - this generates an iOS team provisioning profile for the bundle id.

So far have found this is fine for testing - we distribute ourselves not using the app store.

If anyone would be able to give me a heads up on whether this is an okay method, or whether I will need to generate a new certificate for distribution in case we do use the app store for distribution.

Answer 1

If you still have access to your previous computer, you can export as p12 the private key you used to generate the Apple certificate.

Go to keychain, select the iOS certificate and right click to export it. Then import it to your new computer and you do not need to generate new certificates.