Latest update deleted all older podcast episodes

I just updated to the latest iTunes (Version 12.10.2.3) yesterday and today discovered that hundreds of older podcast episodes have disappeared. The files had been downloaded and were on my drive, and now they are no longer there and they are not in my Recycle, they are just gone. It only shows the three most recent episodes now.

WTF? iTunes podcast sync and listening history tracking has long been pretty terrible, but has the dev team just decided that the product is so bad anyway that it doesn't matter if they just completely screw over their customers? I think this is the final straw for me for Apple.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Oct 30, 2019 2:09 PM

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Posted on Oct 30, 2019 4:09 PM

I've discovered that the cause is that the update suddenly switched all of my podcasts to the Limit Episodes setting default of 3 Most Recent. Brilliant rollout decision to switch a setting that ends up deleting your customers' files.

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