As of yesterday, iTunes 12.6 (on MacBook) will not allow me to delete any podcasts. In addition, every past podcast is showing up (with the cloud symbol) and I can't delete those, either. There have been no updates in the past 30 days. Any suggestions? It makes it hard to manipulate the podcasts into playlists and keep track of which ones I've heard, not to mention filling up my hard disk.
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), iOS 10.3.1
the cloud symbol denotes the podcast is available, not that you have downloaded it.
if you are unable to delete the podcast from iTunes quit out of iTunes
go to your users folder by from finder by pressing SHIFT+CMD+H
go to Music
go to iTunes
go to iTunes Media
go to Podcasts
open the folder of the podcast and delete the individual episodes by selecting them and dragging to the trash. Not all podcast allow you to re-download older episodes later if you delete them now or may require you to pay for free content after a specific time.
I just ran into this problem on my computer and found a solutions if you like to use the classic list. In the classic list view, in the bottom right corner there is a drop down labeled show. If it is set to Feed, it will show everything, including podcasts are not saved locally. If you change that to Unplayed/My Episodes or Unplayed/My Episodes/Saved, it will eliminate the podcasts that have been deleted.
I think I figured it out; iTunes has decided to show all available podcasts in the library in the "Classic List" format, which is what I've been using. Until yesterday, only the podcasts downloaded showed up. I'll just have to get used to using the default list format. But thanks for your workaround suggestion!
Thanks! That was exactly what I needed to do.
Can't delete podcasts
