iTunes is hiding my podcasts
iTunes is hiding my mp3 files. I imported a bunch of mp3 podcasts from my download directory and they showed up in the music subdirectory. Although they play fine as music, I wanted to move them to the podcast subdirectory. I've done this in the past successfully many times. But, this time, after I edit the "info/options" to change the type from "music" to "podcast", they disappear from the music subdirectory but do not reappear in the podcast dirctory. When I search for them in Finder, they show up in a directory within my iTunes directory: /Users/paul/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Podcasts/Unknown Podcast/
I deleted them from this directory using Finder, to start over, but now I can't even import them as music. Using cmd-o and selecting them does not even bring them into the music subdirectory. Nothing happens.
Any idea how to fix this.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)