Hi all,
I just wanted to describe my rather unfortunate experience syncing podcast subscriptions and settings with my Apple ID, which is a new feature in the latest release of iTunes. I thought this would be a great way to wirelessly manage podcasts between my iPhone and my PC. On my iPhone, I only keep unplayed episodes but on my PC, I have chosen to keep everything and I have quite an extensive archive of podcast episodes. I was subscribed to about ten podcasts in iTunes, but only four on my iPhone. Since iOS devices have been able to sync podcast subscriptions and settings with your Apple ID for some time now, the feature was already enabled on my iPhone. After turning on the setting in iTunes, to my horror, iTunes wiped out all my podcasts except the four that were already setup on my iPhone. Not only that, it deleted the actual files themselves and bypassed the recycle bin completely. I couldn't quite believe this had happened, but assumed that the synchronization had gone amiss. To be clear, all references to the podcasts including the subscription itself were deleted from my iTunes library. I dug out a backup that had been made a few days ago and re-added all the podcast episodes. I now see that iTunes is again deleting quite a few of the episodes that I just re-added, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which ones it is deleting and which it is accepting. I can only assume it is deleting episodes that it can't find reference to in my sync profile, but I have no idea. A quick Google reveals plenty of others are having this issue. For example, see here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23041312#23041312 If anyone else has turned on podcast sync, I'd recommend checking your iTunes media folder to check whether any episodes were deleted that you still want. My experiences with iTunes have been generally positive, but this is definitely the strangest thing that has happened to me so far in iTunes. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
