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iTunes DRM, Authorization Limit
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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What happens if I am authorzed on a Mac and the Mac hard drive crashes and the information is unrecoverable? Sinse I can’t boot into this Mac anymore I cannot deauthorize it. Does this forever count against my 3 Mac authorization limit?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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You could replace the hard drive or boot from an external hard drive and deauthorize the Mac.
But I have no doubt that over time the number of authorizations will degenerate to 0 (broken, sold, lost, stolen Macs, forgotten authorizations). I assume this is a welcomed effect.
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If this is true before every clean install you will need to deauthorize your mac, before reinstalling the OS!!
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mcblue
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by mcblue:
If this is true before every clean install you will need to deauthorize your mac, before reinstalling the OS!!
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It is true.
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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Originally posted by waffffffle:
It is true.
Wrong.
You do not need to deauthorize your Mac when you reinstall the OS. You will have to reauthorize it though. Since it is the same computer, it does not increase your number of Macs authorized.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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UhOh... I forgot to de-authorize my ibook before I got it repaired, they gave me a new iBook. Do you think that they will de-authorize it when they refurbish it for sale?
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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Originally posted by dracoleb:
UhOh... I forgot to de-authorize my ibook before I got it repaired, they gave me a new iBook. Do you think that they will de-authorize it when they refurbish it for sale?
You need to contact Apple. See the note linked above.
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