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Friday January 27, 2006 12:30 pm
iTunes Remembers Your iPod Serial Number
Here’s just a little tip for those of you looking for you iPod serial number. In case your are wondering why you would do it, check out this guy’s story:
My iPod was recently stolen out of my car, and in the process of reporting it to the police, they asked for the serial number. I was at a loss to provide it, seeing as how my iPod had been stolen.
Anyway, I was playing around in iTunes and went to the iPod tab in Preferences to see if it had the serial number anywhere. It didn’t appear to be there, but when I went to click another tab, I accidentally clicked where it said “No iPod Connected.” It turned into “Last iPod Connected: XYZ123,” where XYZ123 was the serial number of my iPod.
I guess if you are filing a police report it is best to have this information handy. Hopefully this won’t happen to any of you, but this can also be useful if you lose your iPod at school or work and have an idea of who may have done it.
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Comments:
so…do you think your insurance will cover it? unless its donut flavoured, your chances are slim that the cops will stop every single person they see with an ipod to check their serial number.
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thanks man I searched google for 30 mins for this
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#### yeah dude…you just helped me bust one out…wrote down the serial number from the kids ipod i thought was mine…its a match. thanks for posting this!
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one of my brothers in law stole mine and i am waiting for one of them to “get an ipod” and when they do, i can prove it is mine
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A friend of mine recently got an Ipod Serial Number: 5U738MBCYOP.I am trying to get some songs on it for her.But when i connect it to my laptop Acer Windows Vista Home edition, it is saying Device not Recognized.Even though it automatically installed the driver when it was connected.I even checked for to see if there were more recent updates of the driver.
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Taking out ipod insurance is very worthwhile and should cover an stolen item.
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