ITunes KEEPS DELETING PODCASTS!!!!

What the **** is wrong with iTunes? I have set it to never delete a podcast, and yet it still keeps doing something with the files as they start showing up as missing. This really makes me mad.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but when you control click on the Podcast, does it have a selection for "allow auto delete" or do you see "do not auto delete"? As I said, I don't know if will do the trick, but I noticed it there only on Podcasts and the Podcast's files (not on regular music files.) It seems logical that it is there as an override to the preference for individual Podcasts, so they don't "all" delete by rule of the preference. I switched one of mine to "allow auto delete and nothing deleted after quitting and restarting iTunes, but it may take a day or so I don't know. I am interested in your response to see if this is the case.
Kevin

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I recently had an interesting situation that I can't seem to solve so I thought I'd turn to the community for help. I currently subscribe to a particuar podcast and have the iTunes settings configured to ONLY keep the two most recent episodes before iTunes automatically deletes older episodes. Everything was going smoothly until this week when I realized that I actually wanted to keep an episode that was automatically downloaded (the episode that was deleted was deleted today and I started serching for it today).
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Now however, when I delate an app in iTunes not only does the app stay on the iPhone but I do not even get the warning message.
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Itunes keeps deleting my music and videos every time I add something new and it updates. It only keeps purchased items.

But it says it's still got those files. But then, every time I click on the files it gives me this.
Despite the fact that those files are already in my itunes library. What gives? Is it a bug? Do I need to remove itunes and install it again or would that not help?

I am having the same issue now for the past week.Whenever I add new music it completely wipes out the previously added songs on the iphone. It is extremely frustrating.

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This is the iTunes for MAc forum and your signature shows VGN-CS215J, which happens to be a Sony VAIO (Windows PC).
Sony VAIO services kindly deletes iTunes files.
Go task manager/services/services/ find VAIO content folder watch/right click/stop/right click/properties/ change it from automatic to manual.
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