Method for Unauthorizing Dead Computers

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Method for Unauthorizing Dead Computers

I'm up to four authorized computers on my iTunes account, but I'm only running two of them. The other two are on computers whose hard drives have died and been replaced. When I got the machines back from Apple service, I had to authorize them again. This seems to be using up my authorizations pretty handily. Any ideas as to how I can delete those two non-existent computers?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 5, 2009 5:04 AM

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Ingo2711

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Jun 5, 2009 5:15 AM in response to jonclinch

See this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420 how to deauthorize all computers associated with your account.

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jonclinch Author

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Jun 5, 2009 5:19 AM in response to Ingo2711

Thanks a bunch. That'll do it.

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Ingo2711

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Jun 5, 2009 6:11 AM in response to jonclinch

You're welcome 🙂

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gloworm

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Jun 5, 2009 1:24 PM in response to Ingo2711

My problem is a little different. I'm giving my old computer to my son. I did a clean install of the OS. I want to deauthorize the computer. I don't find anything at the iTunes store that allows me to deauthorize. Did I create a problem because I did a clean install before I deauthorized the account?

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