Hi Dennis, Shaun, Søren, Jessie and Others, Dennis originally asked: >>>>DB: I have subscribed to several podcasts in ITunes. When working >>>> with the taple VO says colapsed for all of the podcasts. How do I >>>> click to expand these podcasts?
and several people replied with the answer that the general command for expanding/collapsing folders, VO-keys+backslash, works here. Søren mentioned that for non-English keyboards, you need to use the VoiceOver help (VO-keys+h pressed twice) to find the command sequence. >>>JH: while interacting with the table press vo and the \ key. >>DB: Thanks. Now, how do I colapse the podcasts? >SJ; Do it again and you'll get the result you want. There are 3 sets of command you can use to expand/collapse podcast folders in iTunes after interacting with the songs outline: 1. VO-keys+backslash acts as a toggle to expand or collapse a specific podcast folder 2. Command-] (that's Command+right bracket -- the key next to the backslash key) to open, and command-[ (that's Command+left bracket) to close. These will expand or collapse all podcast folders in your Songs outline at once. You must issue the command from the songs outline 3. Command-option-right bracket (same command as 2. but with the option key held down) resyncs all your podcast feeds and also expands all the podcast folders when it does so. (Resync will get information about all available podcasts on all feeds, so I generally don't use this). The last two commands are general Mac OS X shortcuts that were mentioned in discussion of a Mac OS X hints column: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060529055059150&mode=print These commands were discussed more fully in this forum in December, e.g, in the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg24236.html details differences between resyncing and refreshing feeds http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23977.html gave a bit more discussion about bulk open and close. I think the command-right bracket and command-left bracket commands to open and close all folders work when you tab to the Songs outline for podcasts even if you don't interact. As I recall, the command-option-right bracket command to open and resync all podcasts required that you interact with a podcast folder in the songs outline that is closed. YMMV. The simple open and close commands also work for radio streams. But it can take a _long_ time to open all radio streams at once. HTH. Cheers, Esther
