Lost serial number…?

I just went online to my Apple account. Odd. I've purchased numerous apps over the last year or so, and there is only record of one purchase. I KNOW I purchased FCP X online less than a year ago, and it isn't there.

I'm wondering - I may have purchased the apps using my Mac tower setup back home, instead of this laptop, (before putting a copy on my laptop). Would that make any difference?

So, re-downloading Aperture from my online account won't work. I would have thought that somehow there would be a record of the purchase AND the serial numbers up there. I have a vauge memory of doing a successful re-download a few years ago, from my Apple account.

B

Hi Léonie,

I've got someone checking for an Aperture box in my office at home. But I think the last version I bought I got online.

I'm in the OS just below Mavericks. I'm running Final Cut 7 and Premiere CS6 for work ... and don't want to risk the problems I might have on Mavericks.

So I haven't upgraded to Aperture 3.5.1 (I see my version is 3.4.5).

I will try for a replacement number, following your links. And report back here and hit the 'This solved my question' button.

I see you've just given me another answer. I'll finish this, and check out your next...

B

I'm in a new operating system. 10.8.5

I'm 3,000 miles from home, but still in the same country.

Mmm. But maybe I'll check that. It could be that I have accounts in both the US and Canada. A good suggestion.

Will report back shortly...

Ben

Hi Léonie,

Duh. I have accounts at both the US and Canada stores of Apple. AND, the history of both is identical - one single purchase. Which is frustrating, coz I've purchased a lot of things from the Apple Store. Mmmm. I wonder. App Store on iTunes. That's where I was getting apps! But no Aperture there.

AND... I see your next note is my solution. Will go to it and click that little green ball with the white arrow.

Duh.

Thank you most kindly Léonie. A metaphor in that somewhere - how one can make one's life more complicated than necessary. Me.

Very much appreciated...

Ben

Thank you. Cool. Now I understand. I just sent a note to someone staying at my house ... which should solve my Aperture issue.

I just booted up my Logic Audio ... and discovered some expensive high-end plugs are now requiring re-authorization. Which would be simple - except they are already there authorized on my online account with them. And now I'm wondering if I re-authorize the dang things, is that going to mess up things.

The joys of upgrading operating systems.

I went to take a quick FCP X course at Apple yesterday - only to discover I'm now a version behind, and they've changed a lot of the protocol of the app. And to get up-to-date I have to move to Mavericks ... which can be very unfriendly to FCP 7 and Premiere CS6, on which I have large projects being edited.

Onward, upward...

Ben

Yes. At the 'App Store' I found a bunch of recently purchased apps. Good for you.

Thanks again...

B

Thank you L.,

Yeah. And I wonder how a brand new motherboard fits into all that. I've sent off a query to Spectrosonics about workarounds etc.

I think I may do some waiting before heading to Mavericks. Ironic. I've been avoiding FCP X for a year. And when I finally decide to make the effort to learn the beast...

I tried to use the earlier version when taking my Apple 'lesson' yesterday. They've changed the FCP menus (again) and what looks like a bunch of stuff. A brain bender.

Thanks again, very helpful. I've got a whole passel of AU's and VST's. Would hate to lose them.

B

And Melodyne too!! Dang. I use it all the time.