11.3 Update freezes Podcasts

iTunes crashes when I try to update a subsciption, when I try to delete, when I try to download and anything else
the only thing still working I found was transfer of already downloaded file to Playlist
Has anybody found a remedy? I've been on the phone with the help desk yesterday for 5 hours. She did a lot of nice cleaning up and updating but iTunes didn't improve.

LOL
I'd say of no current importance
but seriously your assumption that an Apple developer is capable of messing up anything qualifies IMHO as blasphemy within the Apple Universe - Apple developers by definition are higher beings. Why else could the idea that the mess could be a fault of Apple never ever even entered the mind of the woman who worked away at cleaning up my Mac for 5 hours without success except in non-iTunes areas.
but really seriously now I think Apple is on track to revert to what it was before storming the market with iTunes - a highly sophisticated speciality for certain kinds of geeks.
all those prolls (short for proletarian in German) who dare to not be content with the crumbs from the high-ups tables are too much trouble and need to be disciplined. Podcast-Aficionados seem to be such a small bunch that they provide perfect training ground for how to silence people who insist that they are entitled to functioning programs instead of mysteries.

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Message was edited by: MacAttakk

someone made a script that fixes this. It seems to work for me. If you want it to do it automatically just make an iCal even for every 3 days or something that runs this script.
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OK, that's how it is then.
The iTunes podcasts settings should be reworded in that case because it suggest something different from what it does. And, of course, it would be ideal for Apple to make this more flexible and allow users to set up their podcast downloads in their way and not be so motherly (c'mon, Apple, your users are not as dumb as you think, and they have uncapped Internet connections these days anyway)...
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