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From: Gordon Gekko on 8 Jul 2010 10:13 I looked in "About This Mac" but can't locate the registration/purchase dates for two current Macs (OS X) I own-- also for an iPod Touch and an older model Shuffle. Anyone know the location?
From: Jolly Roger on 8 Jul 2010 10:23 In article <i14meq$fnm$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Gordon Gekko <gordon(a)wallst.net> wrote: > I looked in "About This Mac" but can't locate the registration/purchase > dates for two current Macs (OS X) I own-- also for an iPod Touch and an > older model Shuffle. > > Anyone know the location? Wherever you keep your purchase receipts. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: D Finnigan on 8 Jul 2010 12:41 Gordon Gekko wrote: > I looked in "About This Mac" but can't locate the registration/purchase > dates for two current Macs (OS X) I own-- also for an iPod Touch and an > older model Shuffle. > > Anyone know the location? > Check the creation date of your home folder. -- Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and Macintosh computing. http://macgui.com/vault/
From: Jolly Roger on 8 Jul 2010 13:43 In article <dog_cow-1278607285(a)macgui.com>, dog_cow(a)macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote: > Gordon Gekko wrote: > > I looked in "About This Mac" but can't locate the registration/purchase > > dates for two current Macs (OS X) I own-- also for an iPod Touch and an > > older model Shuffle. > > > > Anyone know the location? > > > > Check the creation date of your home folder. That's not a reliable measure. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Richard Maine on 8 Jul 2010 14:05
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <i14meq$fnm$1(a)news.albasani.net>, > Gordon Gekko <gordon(a)wallst.net> wrote: > > > I looked in "About This Mac" but can't locate the registration/purchase > > dates for two current Macs (OS X) I own-- also for an iPod Touch and an > > older model Shuffle. > > The purchase and registration dates are not stored in the computer unless > you have them on a document. If you ordered them on line or had the store > email you a receipt, you have the receipt in an email message (unless you > discarded it). Otherwise, you should have a paper receipt. Or you can check what Apple's records say by going to the support page on their web site. There's a "check your service and support coverage" link there. You can enter your serial number into it. Of course, if you want the data in order to argue that Apple's records are wrong, that won't be of much help, so its back to the reciepts bin. I did have a case where Apple's records were wrong, though odds are high it was Best Buy's fault. I would not normally buy a Mac at Best Buy, but my options were low. (I was buying it for my elderly Mom, was in town for only a few days for dad's funeral, needed to get it set up for her in those few days, and Best Buy was the only local physical store that stocked Macs). I got a refurb unit that was supposed to include an "as new" warrantee, but it looks like Best Buy didn't bother to tell Apple about reselling it, so Apple still had the purchase data of the original buyer. Best buy also didn't even bother to delete the original buyer's account. Who knows what banking or other data might have been in there? (Not me. When it booted to a login screen with someone else's name, the first thing I did was erase and reinstall the OS.) Note that nothing on the computer could reasonably be reliable for the purpose. There are all kinds of ways that any such information could get changed in the relatively normal course of things. An erase/reinstall would wipe pretty much everything that's in the normal file system. You can deduce a manufacture date by decoding the serial number, but that doesn't tell you purchase or registration dates. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain |