Recover a lost iPod's serial number

Jun 01, '04 09:12:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Recently the unthinkable happened, I lost my iPod! Then I realized I never wrote down the serial number and therefore couldn't file a proper police report. Well, I knew that iTunes was able to recognize my particular iPod, so the serial number must be stored somewhere on the Mac. It is! To find your iPod's serial number, navigate to your home directory and then into the Library -> Preferences. From there, open com.apple.iPod.plist with OmniOutliner and then look under the Devices heading. You will see a long string; click that and you will find all the details of your iPod, including the serial number!

[robg adds: You don't need Omni Outliner for this, of course -- any text editor will work, as will Property List Editor, which is part of the XCode / Developer Tools installation. Unfortunately, I imagine the odds of recovering a lost iPod are roughly zero, but at least this way you can file a police report. There's some other interesting items in the file, such as the date of the last iPod connection.]

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