orrinfacey01: Retrieve S/Ns of iPods connected to your computer

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Retrieve S/Ns of iPods connected to your computer

If your iPod is lost or stolen you'll want to find its serial number. Luckily, your Mac keeps a record of all the iPods that have connected to the computer with the s/n and other info.

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 tr ...