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Anyone know of a way to trace a stolen iMac

So, off topic but... Had my iMac stolen, have found out far to late about apps I should have had installed like wheresmymac and icloud(which I didn't like) and am now living to regret it! Apple say "ring the police"..duh! I say "is there any other way of reverse tracking my MAC"? I've left my auto log in passwords unchanged just in case..but if they wipe the hdd then it doesn't help. My ISP say they only log router MAC not the user MAC of pc/device. There's also no website like checkmend for the industry to trace whether items are "hot"...morally not good enough or is there a place???

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Darn, I am sorry. Those POS, I do know how you feel after having gone through a break in before myself. As for your hardware, sorry there is no way to track it. I've got an 4 year old Mac Mini I can let you have.....

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thanks OT03, that's really kind, we've borrowed the father in law's laptop for the moment. planning the big move to Oz!

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If any of those auto-login websites record your IP (like, say, Gmail), you may get lucky and get an IP you can give to the police (and they can track down through the ISP). Other than that, though... not much you can do.

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thanks James, that's exactly what I thought... it's just a shame that when you list an item for sale on eBay etc you don't have to list the serial number, nor is their a way like imei no. on phones to check you're not buying someone's stolen iMac. Do you think there's an opening in your site for something like this? Owners register a device and log it if stolen or they can check if what they plan on buying isn't from a burglary?

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Unless you isntalled something like LoJack or Computrace, you're not going to be able to track this thing. The best thing you can do is report it to Apple as stolen, but that will probably fall on deaf ears. Worth a try, though. Apple is infamous for not helping you find it, and will not reveal your information to anyone in most jurisdictions. Even the police.

I'd also report it to the police local in your area it was stolen. This is so if they pawn it it comes up as stolen, they get busted. This won't guarantee you your iMac, though but at least it's listed as stolen. Unless something was installed previously, you're SOL outside of marking the S/N stolen. This is if you even had the box stolen with it, or it was just the iMac.

For the record, I figured a lot out about Apple I didn't know in 2013, when I posted this.

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thanks for your thoughts Nick

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