In response to my iTunes complaints, Paul told me:
uh, you can ask apple to de-authorise computers for you.
He goes on to quote Apple (iTunes: About Music Store authorization and deauthorization):
If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have less than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months.
Ok, that's good. I still think it's annoying hoops to jump through, but it might buy me more time until JHymn works again.
Meanwhile, talking to David earlier (he of the ever-moving ever-broken blog), about migration, I thought I should mention the migration assistant built in to Tiger. I didn't use it myself (I wanted a duplicate, not a fresh install with copied bits). Anyway:
15:37:41 me: http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/archives/000971.html
15:40:41 david: wow
15:40:44 david: as easy as that?
15:40:47 me: yup
15:40:50 david: so but er
15:40:50 me: even easier for you
15:40:55 david: really?
15:41:05 me: 1 mo, finding link
15:41:18 me: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/setup/
15:42:51 david: yikes
15:43:15 david: bloody hell
15:43:18 david: that's very very cool!
15:43:20 me: yep
15:43:37 david: ok lovelyness
15:43:42 david: smart
15:43:43 david: nice
15:43:45 david: *furry*
15:43:47 me: mac++ ;-)
15:43:50 david: heh
15:43:52 david: we're an advert!
15:43:53 david: :-)
15:43:57 me: indeed
Excuse any formatting-fu, I'm copying/pasting from Adium and ecto has decided to preserve fonts, backgrounds etc.
Posted by savs at November 26, 2005 5:02 PM