Hi Jessi, On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: > I understand what I'm supposed to do with the contextual menu and all > that, and I've just tried it, but they're still there! when I VO space > on allow auto delete, voiceover kind of throws a mini fit and needs to > reset itself, and iTunes just dings whenever I try and move voiceover > around anywhere on it until I take focus away from it and bring it > back. when I expand the podcast folder, all the episodes are still > there, though most of them say undownloaded podcast. so I guess > they're not taking up space on my drive since they're still > undownloaded, but they're so annoying all being there, some of them > have over a hundred episodes that are undownloaded!! >
The undownloaded podcasts are not on your machine. These are the episodes that are on the feed that you can get if you choose "Download podcast". If you see a "Subscribe to podcast" on the contextual menu for any of these episodes, you've either just downloaded individual episodes from the iTunes Store at this subscription's podcast page, or you "Unsubscribed" to the podcast. If you do an "Update Podcast" or refresh the feed without subscribing to the podcast, you're also shown every episode that is still available. For example, if you didn't subscribe to a podcast, but downloaded individual episodes, just those episodes show up in your podcast folder. But if you then "Update podcast" on that selection, you're shown every episode on the feed -- including all the undownloaded podcasts. Just bulk delete these. Start your selection at the first undownloaded podcast and hold your shift key down as you arrow through the rest. You can type the name of the podcast in the Search text field (Command-Option F to go there directly if you don't want to tab to there) so that only that podcast subscription shows up in your songs table when you have "Podcasts" selected in the sources table. Then you can arrow down (or up) through the undownloaded entries. If you downloaded the most recent entries, so that you've got the most recent episode at the bottom, and a whole bunch of undownloaded episodes in between that one and the subscription folder entry, select your recent episode and just VO- Right arrow to the "Release Date" column then sort with VO-Shift- Backslash. That will put your current episode just below the subscription folder, and list all the undownloaded episodes below it in reverse release date order. Start selecting the next (previous by release date) episode -- which is the first of the undownloaded episodes -- then hold down the shift key and run your down arrow all the way to the bottom. (Since you typed the name of the podcast series in the Search Text Field, only entries for those podcast episodes should show up in the Songs table) Then delete in one swell foop <grin>, You can do another VO-Shift-Backslash while focused on the "Release Date" column to restore episode order to most recent appearing last. Once you've deleted these phantom episodes they won't show up again, even with "Update Podcast" (unless your refresh the feed). They also intially show up if you opened your folder with Command-Option-Right Bracket (which refreshes the feed). There are occasions where you want to refresh the feed. For example, if an old episode was posted with incorrect information, but your subscription picked it up before the mistake was caught, the only way you can download the new (correct) episode is if you refresh the feed, because otherwise iTunes knows that you've already got the latest episode -- even if you delete it. HTH Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
