You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
Used iTunes for several years, some music, but mostly podcasts. I subscribe to several. Last week a number of items disappeared from my library. The only change was that I installed "podcasts" on my iPhone and was trying to see how to use it. It seemed to be synching with my PC, but I didn't tell it to delete anything. Ideas?
Have a look at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250803842
In the latest update Apple has changed everyone's default podcast settings so that iTunes only keeps the last 3 episodes.
It won't help for the stuff that you've lost, but you can set the default settings so that you don't have to update the settings for each podcast. It's not obvious though. Here's what I did: in the Podcasts view, select one of the automatic Podcast Playlists - see (1) in the screenshot below. Then select Podcasts in the Library section just above the Podcast Playlists - see (2) in the screenshot. Now, no podcast will selected, so when you click on the Settings... button in the bottom right corner it takes you to the default settings for podcasts. Update these to the settings that you want.
Have a look at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250803842
In the latest update Apple has changed everyone's default podcast settings so that iTunes only keeps the last 3 episodes.
It won't help for the stuff that you've lost, but you can set the default settings so that you don't have to update the settings for each podcast. It's not obvious though. Here's what I did: in the Podcasts view, select one of the automatic Podcast Playlists - see (1) in the screenshot below. Then select Podcasts in the Library section just above the Podcast Playlists - see (2) in the screenshot. Now, no podcast will selected, so when you click on the Settings... button in the bottom right corner it takes you to the default settings for podcasts. Update these to the settings that you want.
This got me too. 5000+ podcasts deleted including some only two or three days old. What are they thinking of ? I only noticed because I was testing a new backup process. At least means I have copies of all the deleted files. But will take time to sort out.
Problem solved. I was lucky as being in the middle of testing a new backup process. First issue is identifying files lost. Then recover to original locations. To restore to iTunes, hit <ctrl>O, navigate to main podcasts folder, restored files will have creation date of today, so search on DateCreated:dd/mm/yyyy select all files and hit open. Looked a bit untidy, but after a few hours, I found iTunes had tidied things up, so looks no different than before. Of course also need to change setting to stop this happening again.
Great help. I guess I should read Release Notes more carefully. Many thanks.
Does Apple release release notes? Just did a quick search and nothing comes up.
And hopefully this isn't a feature, and so wouldn't have made it into any notes.
So we just have to suck it and see.
items disappeared from library
