Recovering a Serial Number

I got Final Cut Pro about 2 1/2 years ago, and it's always been great. Unfortunately last week my hard drive crashed. A new one was installed just fine, but I must reinstall Final Cut (all my data was backed up, so that wasn't an issue)
What if, hypothetically, I was unable to locate the original packaging, which would give us the serial number (required for installation). Is there anyway to verify with Apple that I did, in fact, purchase Final Cut so that I could get the serial number? Or am I just totally out of luck? I have all the installation discs and it is possible that we could find the original box, but at this point I'd like to get things moving as quickly as possible.
Thanks for any help that anyone can offer!

You won't be able to actually see the serial number this way, but it might work. Never actually tried it.
If everything was backed up from your old computer, you can find the license file in this location:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/ProApps/
You will see a file named "Final Cut Studio System ID" in the above folder. You can try to copy this file to your new hard drive and see if it works. Like I said, I have never tried this but it's worth a shot.
EDIT: You will want to copy this file before you re-install - that way the installer sees it and won't ask you for a serial..... In theory.
Message was edited by: Brent Hilgenkamp

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