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How do I stop iTunes 11 marking all TV show downloads as "Watched"?

After I upgraded to iTunes 11 and relaunched iTunes all of my TV Shows and Movies had been marked as "Watched". I am also finding that as I download new episodes they are coming into my library marked as "watched". This is annoying; particularly in the context of all of the TV Seasons and Movies available to me in the cloud now showing in the main TV Show and Movie views. I like to browse unwatched episodes for ease of access. Does anyone out there have a fix?

PLEASE HELP!

iTunes 11-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 1, 2012 4:51 PM

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ViteComp

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Posted on Aug 9, 2017 12:54 AM

Just sent this feedback to Apple Support. If anyone's still interested:

I know that you lot have been ignoring this problem for a number of years on all platforms, but I may have stumbled onto the cause of the problem.....

It appears that the problem occurs when there is a duplicate episode name in another programme! This may be causing the index/indices to become confused?

I'll leave it to your geniuses(?) to solve the problem, but maybe this is a good place to start troubleshooting?

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WagBrat

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Dec 23, 2012 6:54 PM in response to bosoxbarley

I've been having this problem as well ever since the upgrade to 11. What I hadn't noticed was that my shows that have been manually marked as unwatched have been randomly changing back to watched. It took me forever to finally resolve the issue that 11 had with crashing on playback and now this . . .

Jan 16, 2013 2:56 PM in response to bosoxbarley

I have the same problems and tried contacting iTunes Support, but go nowhere as they only deal with problems downloading. They actually never properly even understood the problem even after emailing them detailed screenshots.

femo

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Jan 16, 2013 10:50 PM in response to bosoxbarley

problem still existing....

no change here. just yesterday downloaded 2 new episodes, and the were marked as watched.....

unbelievable......

Jan 18, 2013 11:27 PM in response to bosoxbarley

Yup, same issue here. Just deleted the plist for iTunes in my user Library, and restarted iTunes and the issue is resolved (for now). I'll update if it comes back.

femo

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Feb 27, 2013 1:27 AM in response to bosoxbarley

Hello Guys,

little update, it seems to work now....today i downloaded 5 new episodes, and they were correctly marked as

unwatched ! 🙂

i use itunes 11.0.2 (26) 64-bit

Hope it also works for all of you now ! GOOD LUCK !

Dec 10, 2013 11:22 AM in response to bosoxbarley

I think the problem is not that shows are immediately marked as watched when they are downloaded. I have a few shows in my library I haven't seen yet. Every so often, my unwatched count on the itunes sidebar will decrease, and a number of shows will now have lost their blue dot, so not showing as unwatched. Needless to say, I haven't actually watched them (even in part).

It's a bit frustrating as I 'sync unwatched items' to my iPad.

ViteComp

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Jun 23, 2017 12:45 AM in response to bosoxbarley

Problem still exists 5 years on. Vsn 12.6.1.25

ViteComp

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Jul 2, 2017 5:47 PM in response to bosoxbarley

According to iTunes, yesterday I watched 348 TV episodes. At an average of 1/2 an hour per episode, I have watched 174 hours of shows in one day! Come on, Apple. This is getting ridiculous.

How do I stop iTunes 11 marking all TV show downloads as "Watched"?