The Application Will Not Be Verified, Part II

“The Application “Application Name” was not installed on the iPhone “iPhone Name” because it could not be verified.”

I seem to have the worst luck with creating ad-hoc-provisioned iPhone apps. Fresh from discovering this when trying to release the last beta version of my app, I was hit with another problem with the same outward symptoms this time. Here it is, for web-posterity too, in the hope that it may save others from the hours of frustration and completely unnecessary futzing with certificates, keys, and the iPhone Program Portal site:

Don’t have files with colon characters (‘:’, displayed as ‘/’ in the Finder) in their names in your app’s resources. It’ll work just fine for Xcode-controlled developer builds, and in your beta builds the app will build just fine, and the codesign tool will report no problems with it. After loading it into iTunes, however, it’ll refuse to sync it to the phone, reporting the error message alluded to above. This has been reported to Apple (rdar://6567158).