De- Authorise Mac From iTunes

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Tegansdad

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Guys, We have a Power Book 17" with the vertical lines screen problem that apples is ignoring ... we have changed it for a new macbook but wish to de- authorise it from itunes, the problem is that 2 thirds of the screen are gone and we cannot see what I call the apple menu's ... doeas anyone know of a way of de-authorising from a different machine ?

No we dont have a peripheral screen to use.

Thanks for any comments
Jamiie
 
Tegansdad said:
Guys, We have a Power Book 17" with the vertical lines screen problem that apples is ignoring
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I'm not sure what you mean by Apple is ignoring? The last of the powerbooks are coming up on 5 years old and there was no inherent problems with PBG4 17" machines with screen problems. Machines get old and hardware is not meant to last forever, get over it. Not to mention about 80% of the screen problems I see on Apple laptops are due to abuse anyway.

As far as transferring goes, you don't necessarily need the screen to use migration assistant to transfer. Just connect through firewire to the machine you are transferring to and boot the powerbook to target disk mode by starting up holding down the T key. Go to the destination machine which should be booted normally and go to applications/utilities/migration assistant and then you can migrate everything from the powerbook over to the new machine including applications, settings, and user accounts and keep every completely intact.

EDIT: This may not work if this is a new macbook without firewire port, however there is still a work around for using migration assistant. You can hook up to an external monitor and boot to a bootable installer DVD for the powerbook. With an etxernal HD connected to the PB go to utilites/disk utility and create a disk image of the PB drive and save the image to the external HD, which for these purposes should be formatted to HFS+ (journaled). After the disk image is created connect the external HD to the new macbook and mount the disk mage that was created. Then you can run migration assistant pointing it to the disk image to transfer everything over.

Furthermore, you could remove the HD from the PB and put it into and external USB enclosure and migrate that way.
 
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You can also run Migration Assistant with a local network connection. Here's Apple's guide. If you can't see enough of your screen to run Migration Assistant on it, then djackmac's external display addition is necessary. Or, if you can borrow a second FireWire-equipped Mac and run the PowerBook in target disk mode, then you can run Migration Assistant on the former and select the PowerBook's disk as the source volume.
 
Does any of this advice offered so far, help the OP to De-Authorize his old PB from his iTunes account, which seems will only work from the original computer that was Authorized.
 
Right, so in the end, the solution to that might be to log into the iTunes account from any computer and deauthorise all computers. This universal deauthorisation can only be done once per year. Then, one can authorize any computer by selecting that command from the Store menu.
 
jbarley said:
Does any of this advice offered so far, help the OP to De-Authorize his old PB from his iTunes account, which seems will only work from the original computer that was Authorized.
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If the OP migrates the data, they won't need to de-authorize. Just providing an alternative that works all around. And yes, otherwise an external display is needed if the screen is out.
 
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