Why can't I easily manually sync podcasts?

Just switched from Dell/Windows to a Mini Mac. Used to be able to easily drag podcasts from my PC to my Iphone. Now when I do so, many podcasts alrady on my phone are erased. Why is a Apple to Apple transactio harder than an Iphone to Dell transaction??

Great questions, absolutely zero issues syncing with cable.
The devices fail to synce a lot whether they are plugged into a external power supply or when they are not.
If I initiate the synce from the devices, same exact thing occurs. It may synce if I'm lucky or it mail disappear from under devices which fails to synce. I've never calculated it but it's like a 50/50 chance.

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I prefer to manually sync everything on my 3G iPod (music, podcasts, etc).
Since updating to iTunes 7, it appears I can not manually copy podcasts to my iPod. It only appears to load podcasts if I choose the Sync option in iTunes.
Not exactly my idea on manually managing my library.
Bronson

I find the same to be true for me, and it's really frustrating. I used to be able to sync by checking the little boxes next to the episodes I wanted, choose to only update those selected, played or unplayed, and update worked fine. Now that choice is gone, replaced by "last 10" or last 10 unplayed" etc. There is a knowledge base document:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/7.0/en/900.html
that states:
"To load podcasts onto your iPod manually, deselect Sync and drag podcasts or podcast episodes from your Podcasts playlist to the iPod icon in the iTunes window (below Devices). "
This functionality doesn't function in 7.0. Maybe in 7.0.1????? How soon???????
OK! OK! TIME OUT!
Last night I tried the dragging action, but with no apparent results. But somehow, 419 "songs" appeared on my iPod from nowhere, and I couldn't seem to determine where they were. duh! So now, I just tried going into the song list by Genre to podcast, and, lo and behold, there are all the missing podcasts I dragged there! but they don't show up in tyhe normal podcast area. I need to go home from work, reconnect the iPod to the Mac, and determine where they are. I'll update here when I do find out!!!!!

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Do you have your iPod set up to automatically sync your iTunes content including Podcasts or do you manually add and remove content from youri Pod via iTunes?
If you automatically sync content to your iPod, double check your sync settings from under your iPod's Podcasts configuration tab in iTunes. Try removing the option to sync podcasts at all and then updating the changes to your iPod. This will remove ALL podcasts from the iPod. Once it has finished, resync the podcasts back to your iPod and see if that helps.
Otherwise, it may be necessary to just restore your iPod to factory settings.
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I'm manually syncing a podcast by dragging the podcast down onto the ipod device. In the status window it says syncing the file and appears to copy the file. But when I look at the podcasts on the ipod the podcast isn't there. Dragging the podcast a second time does nothing as itunes thinks the file is already there.
Where has the podcast gone? How can I find and play it?
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Michael

Do you have the problem when changing your iPod from "sync" to "manual"? I had to reformat my iPod to get it to accept certain podcasts once I turned off syncing. It also seems that when I turned off syncing, the iPod didn't "un-sync" (i.e. the amount of audio space used on the iPod stayed the same) but I can no longer access the podcasts. Mine doesn't act like it's copying, however. It gives me the green plus sign when I drag it, but then nothing happens. So basically it's as if the podcasts are still on my iPod, I just can't access them since I turned off syncing. Now I'll have to either turn syncing back on or reformat again and start over. (Which I may do to test my theory that the podcasts don't get removed, I just can't access them!)

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I have a dozen or so podcasts that I manually synced to my iPod by dragging them into a playlist I created call "Spoken".
Now I would like to delete some of them. I can delete them from the playlist, but that doesn't seem to get rid of them - the capacity of my iPod does not increase. I have searched from them in the Music Library, but none of them appears. There is no Podcast playlist, because I manually synced them.
How do I permanently get rid of them?
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After more testing I noticed that only some of my podcast episodes had to be removed manually. So what I wrote seemes to be an issue, and not the norm. The second prompt to move files to the trash does usually appear.

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I am extremely annoyed that mac won't let you sync two computers via bluetooth, when you can easily do it with phones and pdas. It seems to me that it takes the exact same technology to do so, and the only reason mac does not let you sync two computers is that they want to force you to pay $100 for a .mac account. Very Microsoft-like of them. Apple advertises that you can do this function as part of the OSX, but fails to mention it requires additional cost. I hope they provide this in the future.
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1) Apple always advertised its computer to computer sync'ing as ".Mac sync" (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dotmacsync/) so I don't see where they "fail to mention it requires .mac" or put that "in the small print no one reads"
2) Peer-to-peer sync'ing leverages many conceptual problems that sync'ing with a central server does not have. It takes a lot of effort to have proper, reliable, secure, yet simple-to-use peer-to-peer sync'ing. It becomes even worse when more than 2 peers are involved, and becomes a total nightmare when there can be cycles in the sync'ing swarm. Apple took the simpler, reliable approach. Of course, Apple can put money to provide some peer-to-peer solution but it's likely not worth the money yet for Apple.
3) Third parties can provide peer-to-peer sync'ing in no time (if it were that simple) since Tiger, thanks to Sync Services... yet there isn't many solutions out-there... however, maybe you should take a look on VersionTracker. You might find what you want:
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml
Remember... sync'ing is never that simple.
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Every day for about a week or so now I get an error whenever I launch Safari. It keeps telling me that I need to replace my bookmarks on MobileMe and to "fix now" or upload them from another computer. I don't have them on another computer, they're on my iPhone. But just to get it to STFU I did in fact "correct" the problem by replacing them from my computer several times. I've also turned off syncing on my iPhone and sync'd it with iTunes, replaced them from my computer to MobileMe and turned it back on the iPhone and replaced them from MobileMe again.
It doesn't seem to matter what I do, or how many times I replace the bookmarks, it just keeps asking me every time I launch Safari. Now I don't want to bookmark anything on my computer because I have new bookmarks on my iPhone and I can't get them to sync back.
What in the heck is going on?
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Why can't Chapters created in GarageBand podcasts be viewed as large screens in iTunes and iPads using iMac OS 10.8.5 and iPad iOS7?

I created podcasts using GarageBand and added artwork as chapters to the audio naration. In the old iTunes they would show up as seperate large screenswhich could be easily read by other on a large monitor. While they can be seen as tiny pictures when you click on Chapters in the menu bar at the top, they are not large enough for students or audience members to see.
I also create these to go on my iPad. Withe the old version of iTunes, they could fill up the screen on the iPad. in iOS7 they are small, do not change with the audio as they are supposed to, and you only can see the next screen if you touch the < in the top left, go back to the previous screen and then touch "Now Playing". Since they do not automatically go to the next chapter artwork screen as the audio is playing, you would have to just know when to make the change.
This now defeats the whole purpose of the ability to add artwork or any visual guide that would go along with the podcast that was created in GarageBand and sent to iTunes.
Even when you make the podcast into a movie, which does show the artwork as the audio is playing, you still can't control it by having the chapters available as they used to be in the seperate window. This used to be in the control of the three lines on the bottom right side of the screen which now are the list of the next podcasts. In fact, on my iMac screen, the window is also very small. You can't make it larger like you could in the earlier version of iTunes.
It is such a disappointment to me that this has changed.
I can still use my old iPod to do the podcast the way I have described above, and fortunately I can show those using AppleTV on a large monitor, but if I wanted to send the podcast to students to place on the iPad, they would no longer have the full value of what GarageBand creates.
Is there any other program that could be used on the iPad that would not only have the artwork chapters in sync with the audio, but would have a way to quickly go from one chapter to another should a student wish to skip parts of a podcast and only review certain portions?
If nothing is available now, is there anyway to get a message to the iTunes people to get this back into the iOS7 devices? I wish someone could let them know what a loss it is to those of us who have used these applications for this kind of teaching or studying.
Please create another iPad app that would work with GarageBand for this kind of podcast!!!
I use an iMac OS 10.8.5 and an iPad iOS7.
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I'm going to reply to my own message. After spending some time trying to solve this problem, I found an application called Chapter Maker in the App Store. It is reasonably priced and once you have turned your podcast sent to iTunes into a movie by opening it in QuickTime, you can either just show it through QuickTime on your desktop or laptop computer, or if you want it to work in iTunes the way it used to work, you can send it from QuickTime to iMove (go to file/Export to... iMovie) where you can then export it as a movie to your desktop and open in Chapter Maker where you can add the chapter headings back in to the podcast and Export it. You can then add it back into the movie folder in iTunes where you can see the visuals in full screen and navigate through the chapters quickly.
I also tried this out by connecting my iPad to my computer and moving the movie into my iPad. While it doesn't have the chapters visible to navigate quickly to a chapter heading, you can touch the play screen and drag it to the places you need to review. Not as nice as the old iOS version, but it also does show the visual screen using the full screen of the iPad.
As I mentioned earlier, on my older iPod, I am able to view the visuals in full screen and by touching the list at the top right, it turns over to navigate through chapters with clearly labeled headings.
I use this to study topics for myself and also to pass on information to students.
I do wish they had kept the old version the way it was, but guess that's the way things go.
Check out the application in the App Store called Chapter Maker if you are looking for the same solution to this problem. Even if you aren't, it's an easy way to add sections to any video.

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I'm trying to sync my entire library. I get a unauthorized message

Thanks Jacob for your explanation. This has happened a couple times to me with podcasts I get, and just happened again this morning. It's very frustrating iPod doesn't do all mov files, but I'm sure to get the device as small as that some compromises have to be made. I normally just delete the podcast so that it doesn't keep telling me that it can't sync it, but I decided there must be an easy way to get it on the iPod.
What you can do is, once you get you mov files into iTunes, then highlight them, go to the "Advanced" menu, and then convert them for the iPod/iPhone. It may take a few minutes to convert each clip (my 7 minute clip took about 8-10 minutes on my Macbook Pro), but they will then be readable on the iPod.
Hope this helps! There may be another or quicker method to do this, but this seems to be a pretty easy way to do it.

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I am insanely frustrated. I have had iPhone since its inception. The most basic and fundamental feature syncing a computer and iPhone is the ability to transfer information between the two. I do not want my most private information, such as everyone I know and everywhere I go and everything I do, to be uploaded to Apple server. I believe the right to privacy is very real and needs to be protected. Why has Apple removed the ability to sync your private info and keep it on your own personal devices. I have been able to do this for six years!

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I am not ranting just rightfully frustrated.
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We're having problems with our podcast showing up on itunes. A few weeks ago, our podcast just stopped appearing under the proper keyword searches. Our podcast is called Sequence Break XIV and out itunes url is: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sequence-break-xiv/id455566304
The keywords you should commonly be able to find us under are FFXIV, Final Fantasy XIV, and Final Fantasy. Not only is our podcast no longer under those search terms, but almost every podcast that used to be under the search term "FFXIV" has disappeared except for two. It really just looks like something is buggy here. When you first search for "FFXIV" for example, the screen that pops up shows all the different media you can look under. The "Podcasts" section shows a preview of three podcasts. Yet when you click on the podcasts section, only 2 podcasts show up. So something is wrong here.
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I also noticed my old episodes (the ones I intended to keep so I could watch again) are mostly gone, and I didn't have any backups because, until now, if I wanted to keep my epidodes, all I had to do was not delete them.
Seriously, I do love Mac but iTunes is really not the best thing they've ever come up with.

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