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Overriding the once-per-year deauthorizations in iTunes

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Parasitic

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I love formatting and starting fresh, but I'm also a retard. I never seem to remember to deauthorize my computers before a system reinstall, and already used up my once a year "deauthroize all" ticket in iTunes so I won't be able to access that on my behalf until November 🙁

I sent a trouble ticket via the web interface to iTunes support begging for mercy - does anyone know the possibility of them sparing that once chance and doing it for me?
 
They have done it for me twice now.

The interesting thing is that iTunes on OS X never needs to be deactivated before a reformat. If I forget to deauthorize and then wipe my laptop, my count stays the same after I 're'authorize it.
 
So emailing them and asking will get it done?

There's some degree of hardware recognition I believe, but it's only limited to OSX. I could wipe the hard and reinstall OSX and the authorization limit wouldn't increase, but on the very same Macbook if I authorized the Vista installation on bootcamp it would trigger the counter. Changing OS is out of the question, it appears.

This inconsistency is what ticks me off the most.
 
Originally posted by: TheStu
They have done it for me twice now.

The interesting thing is that iTunes on OS X never needs to be deactivated before a reformat. If I forget to deauthorize and then wipe my laptop, my count stays the same after I 're'authorize it.
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I never had to deauthorize it in Windows either. I remember formatting numerous times in a span of 3-4 months and never once did I use another authorization.
 
After getting a reply asking for my permission and billing address to verify that I'm the owner of the iTunes account, I've now got the authorization counter reset to 0. Awesome 🙂
 
It has no way of knowing if you are using the system anymore. I suppose they could let it time out. Like if you haven't utilized the authorization in 3 months it would deactivate on that system or something... I don't know.
 
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