Apr 14, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: nathanator11
The file that stores info about iPods is located at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist. Open it with your favorite text editor.
Here's the hierarchy of the XML file with (descriptions):
<dict> (everything/root) <key>Devices</key> (the section that stores info about the iPods themselves) <dict> <key>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</key> (a unique identifier for each iPod, not useful to us <dict> <key>Connected</key> (the first iPod) (In here is the info about the iPod. Subsequently, I will refer to things at this level of the tree.) </dict> </dict> (ignore stuff in here; it's not useful to us) <dict>
- Line 2 of the section I said we'd focus on is a date. This is the last time you connected the iPod.
- Line 4 tells us that the device is an iPod, which we already knew.
- Line 6 tells us what 'family' the iPod is. My Nano G5 is a 16.
- Line 8 is the firmware version in a single number (not the version that we usually see).
- Line 10 is the firmware version as a the number we're used to (X.X.X).
- Lines 12 and 14 are about games on the iPod, and not very useful to us.
- Line 16 is that unique ID we saw earlier.
- Line 18 is the language (language-country).
- Line 20 is the big one: the serial number.
- Lines 22 and 24 are info for the software update application, and not very useful to us.
- Line 26 is the number of times you've connected that iPod.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This is pretty handy to know.]
