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dwon63 Author

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iTunes v12.9.0 deleting whole podcast instead of just the episode

Just updated iTunes last night to 12.9.0. After it updated, I refreshed my podcast subscriptions. When I tried to delete individual episodes I didn't want to listen to, the whole podcast was deleted from my list. For example, I tried to delete a StarTalk Radio episode, and instead the whole podcast disappeared from my list. So that I had to go back to the store to resubscribe. Has anyone else had this problem and found a fix? I've already tried to uninstall etc. and didn't find any solutions online. Thanks

Posted on Sep 13, 2018 11:31 PM

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Kevin from Midwood

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Posted on Sep 16, 2018 1:40 PM

Thank goodness Shift + Delete on an episode (or selection of episodes) seems to work[*]. You might have to do it twice to the same episode depending on what state it's in, but I feel like I've got the old functionality back to my satisfaction. (I always manage podcasts in Classic List view.)

On the other hand, this new behavior of right-click an episode, select "Delete from library" prompting deletion of an entire subscription is a terrible bug in my book, and I too ended up being fooled by it — because I've built up years of muscle memory of that action being meaningful only for the individual episodes I clicked on — and I had to resubscribe and re-download several episodes. Apple needs to fix this right away.

[*]On iTunes for Windows, of course. The modifier key might be different on a Mac.

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