I've lost my Quicktime Pro key...

[mpw]

...I had an iBook which developed a nasty ticking and grinding from the hard drive. I copied my 30GB hard drive to an external FW drive just before the iBook died and replaced it with a new iMac G5, so far so good.

My problem is although I've got QT with the new iMac I had upgraded to QT Pro on the iBook thinking the registration code would still be available (as I never wrote it down anywhere) but I can't find it on the external drive.

Anybody know where it might be?

My 30GB copy was a straight copy with system files etc.

Any help apreciated.

 

[ftaok]

...I had an iBook which developed a nasty ticking and grinding from the hard drive. I copied my 30GB hard drive to an external FW drive just before the iBook died and replaced it with a new iMac G5, so far so good.

My problem is although I've got QT with the new iMac I had upgraded to QT Pro on the iBook thinking the registration code would still be available (as I never wrote it down anywhere) but I can't find it on the external drive.

Anybody know where it might be?

My 30GB copy was a straight copy with system files etc.

Any help apreciated.

Log into your Apple Store account. The software key should be available.

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

Yeah lost.

 

[daveL]

If you cloned your hard drive, you'd have it. If CCC'd (Carbon Copy Cloner) my boot disk many times, and I never lost my key.

 

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....a good reason to keep those email receipts that Apple sends when you buy something - I keep the email *and* a printed copy...oh yeah!

 

[superbovine]

call customer support.

 

[jsw]

I'm guessing you might need "/Users/[your account]/Library/Preferences/QuickTime Preferences".

I don't see the registration in the plist files anywhere, and the file mentioned above does indeed include the registration number, although I don't know if it's a reference to it (a coy) or the definitive source of it.

 

[daveL]

Is your disk copy bootable? If so, you could connect it, boot from it and then launch QT and retrieve the serial number.