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This last weekend my Powerbook, iPod and mobile-phone were taken from my home. In order to provide the police and insurance company with the right data I need to retrieve my iPod's serial#. Is there a way to get this number from my iMac, to which it has been synchronizing?

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,

Harm

[GORDYmac]

I'm sure it's in a plist somewhere. Try opening the iTunes plist, or the iTunes XML file in your Music folder and searching for it there.

Good luck.

[Parky]

Do you not have the box or a receipt for the purchase?

The SN is on the outside of the iPod box, and the receipt should do as proof of ownership.

Ian

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No, after moving last spring I thru out the box... I bought the iPod at a local store (Dixons) the don't print serials on their receipts. And the serial is requested by the police to be able to trace the iPod whenever they encounter such a device. In the meantime I contacted Apple in Holland to ask them if they could provide provide me with the number, afterall I registered the thing. Sadly they could not help me!?
I also looked through some .plist files but the only thing I found was a device number. The serial, which if I remembered well begins with an "U", was not noted. But maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

Harm

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i checked my com.apple.iPod.plist when my ipod wasnt connected and its in there.

open in textedit. i assume the serial number is model-specific. finding that out would help find the serial number in that list. the plist on my computer lists a couple different serial numbers. one matches my new ipod. the other one is probably the old one.

[triangle]

Oke, the only number I could think off is this; 000A270002099999 (but then sligtly different ) I found this one in my plist.
The iPod I had was one of Rev A (5 Mb). Could this be the number?

[scaught]

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Devices</key>
	<dict>
		<key>000A2700020127AA</key>
		<dict>
			<key>Connected</key>
			<date>2004-08-16T00:54:48Z</date>
			<key>Family ID</key>
			<integer>1</integer>
			<key>Firmware Version</key>
			<integer>287</integer>
			<key>ID</key>
			<string>000A2700020127AA</string>
			<key>Serial Number</key>
			<string>U21480AMLG6</string>
			<key>Software Version</key>
			<integer>21004288</integer>
			<key>Updater Family ID</key>
			<integer>1</integer>
			<key>Use Count</key>
			<integer>37</integer>
		</dict>
		<key>000A2700020BFD95</key>
		<dict>
			<key>Connected</key>
			<date>2004-03-05T04:05:11Z</date>
			<key>Firmware Version</key>
			<integer>306</integer>
			<key>ID</key>
			<string>000A2700020BFD95</string>
			<key>Software Version</key>
			<integer>34635776</integer>

where i underlined there, i think thats going to be where the serial number is. im pretty sure that is my old ipod, which was a rev A 5GB model, so your serial number should be SIMILAR to that one.

[Dr. Wahnsinn]

I just want to back up the belief that the iPod's serial number is in the mentioned file. I checked my own file and it listed the serial numbers of both iPods I've had connected to this Mac. Nice to know it's there - just in case.

[Buck_Naked]

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[an0therdumbsn]

My 40 gig 4th gen's serial number doesnt being with a U but with a J