Hi Darcy and Shaun, You can clear up the unwanted lists of unloaded downloadable episodes if you delete their entries. If you don't manually refresh the feed using the contextual menu (with VO-keys-shift-m on a selection in the Songs Outline and "Update Podcast") those entries should stay off the episode list for your subscribed podcasts.
Dane gave instructions on how to select multiple tracks in iTunes for ripping selected entries, and that method works for podcasts, too. However, what's simplest in most cases is just to block delete all entries earlier than your "first" podcast like this: 1. Choose "Podcasts" in the Sources Outline 2. Tab to the Search Text Field and type in the Name of the Podcast 3. Tab to the Songs Outline and interact. 4. (Check that you've only selected one podcast series with the string you typed under Search Text Field, or else that it's at the bottom of your "Songs Outline" list. For example, if you typed "Screenless Switchers" you might get both Darcy and Holly's podcast and the episode they did on the iTunes Store for Blind Cool Tech. This is where closing podcast folders can help navigation if you subscribe to more than one or two podcasts.) 5. Open the podcast folder for the subscription you want to "trim" with VO-keys+backslash 6. Sort your podcast episodes by release date. VO-keys+right arrow to the column for release date. Use VO-keys+shift+c to check that the column header is "release date". Arrow down to check that the latest episode is just below the folder in the Songs Outline. If you get the earliest episode, arrow back up to the folder, then type VO-keys+shift+backslash to reverse the sort order of your podcasts. Now when you arrow down the first entry should be the latest podcast. 7. Arrow down to the first episode you subscribed to, or that you want to keep, then arrow down to the start of episodes you want to delete. 8. Press the shift key and use the down arrow to select all remaining episodes in the list. 9. Use the contextual menu (VO-keys+shift+m) and choose "Delete" This was a bit lengthy, but the basic idea was to delete a continuous block of episodes by using shift and the arrow keys to select. I set the sort ordering on the "release date" column to list latest episodes first, so you can just run your arrow keys down the list while holding down the shift key to make the selection. You can reverse the sort order by release date after you're through deleting by issuing the VO-keys+shift+backslash sort command again with your VoiceOver cursor positioned in the "release date" column. There are other ways to select specific podcast subscription series by toggling on the browser menu (command+b), but the present method probably works, is a lot easier to explain, and is unlikely to get new users hung up in a completely new iTunes configuration that they may not want to use. I think that as long as you do not manually refresh the feed, the deleted entries will stay off. This should work for cases where you did not manually download specific podcast episodes that you are now trying to include in your block deletion. If you want those episodes to stay deleted, you have to "Allow Auto Delete" for them. Finally, I think you can still use "Download Podcast Episode" from the contextual menu for your podcasts subscription folder to get all later podcasts in your subscription. That argument works for all the entries that show up under your folder; since you've deleted the entries you're not interested in getting, they shouldn't be included in the request for download. This should work if you want to check that get all available new podcasts, but generally have the "Download most recent" episode preference set. HTH. Let me know if there are problems. I don't usually try out all these different options myself. Cheers, Esther On Thursday, October 04, 2007, at 01:15PM, "Darcy Burnard" wrote: >There's not much you can do about that. How many rows in each podcast >folder depends on how many episodes are in the feed. Buzz out loud >for example keeps many past episodes there, while Leo Laport's radio >leo feed only contains podcasts for the past week. >Darcy > >On 4-Oct-07, at 5:23 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: > >> Now if I can stop from just having one hundred and fifty seven boz >> out loud epasodes show up in that list I would be happy. It is a >> good thing I did not set them to download, I wouldn't have a hard >> drive.
