Why do podcasts no longer auto-delete in new v10.6.3.25 on Dell laptop Win7 despite menu settings

Why do podcasts no longer auto-delete in new v10.6.3.25 on Dell laptop Win7 despite menu settings?
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Found the error and posted a blog post here: http://www.red-abstract.com/blog/2009/11/19/itunes-90-and-auto-deleting-podcasts .html
The issue is that Apple put this behind another layer of configuration on the podcasts screen. Go to that screen and click "Settings." You will see there that you can configure the podcasts individually or set the defaults to remove played episodes. Only after setting this will iTunes honor to auto-delete.

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Hello,
Wasn't sure which forum was best for this but just wanted to voice my frustration with Itunes 7.7 and the fact that my podcasts no longer "Auto-Delete" after being played. I checked my settings for each podcast and they are still set to "AUto-Delete". If anyone has any suggestions, please respond.
Thanks!

The auto-delete functionality in iTunes refers to deleting the podcasts from your computer. The control for removing played podcasts from the device is on the podcasts tab available when the device is attached.
Whether or not podcasts are auto-deleted from you computer is based on the podcasts settings in iTunes. The settings button is on the bottom of the podcasts page (next to the undelete button). In the popup window under "Settings for:", select "Podcast Defaults" to change to default for all podcasts, or a specific podcast that you want to behave differently from the default settings.
When choosing "Podcast Defaults", the two selections at the bottom of the window will be unlocked. When choosing any single podcast, uncheck the "Use Defaults" checkbox to unlock these fields.
Changing the selection "When new episodes are available:" will affect how many (zero, one, or all) podcasts to download.
Changing the selection "Episodes to keep:" will affect which, if any, podcasts are auto-deleted.
As to removing podcasts from the device, this changed for me with the most recent update to the iPod software. Podcasts are removed from the iPhone if they have been played, but they remain on the iPod until they have been deleted from iTunes. I have not experienced a case where a podcast persisted on the device after it was deleted from the computer. I am hopeful that Apple will fix this with the next iPod software update.

Why am I having to constantly have to remark podcasts to allow auto delete?

One of the features I have enjoyed over time is the ability to mark a podcast to "Allow Auto Delete" of played podcasts. Lately (did it start with iTunes 9.x?) I am having to continually remark podcasts to allow auto delete. I have no idea why marking it once shouldn't do it. Does the fact that it has deleted everything -- there are no podcasts which have not been listened to -- somehow reset something and not retain the previous setting?
The scenario, which seems to happen the most often, is when there may be multiple episodes. I am not using the default settings, but it is set it to download the most recent episode(s) and only keep unplayed episodes. Yet when I do a refresh many of these played episodes do not get deleted. I then have to right click on the podcast and indicate yet again, "Allow Auto Delete".
Has anyone else noticed this? Is there something I'm missing? Is this a bug?
-Bill

I've noticed this too.
I have two ipods (one Nano 5G and one 160GB Classic). Since limited space is more of an issue on my Nano, I tend to keep some of the video-only podcasts set up to automatically sync only to the Classic and not on the Nano. I have around 40 podcasts in my list that automatically update, and about 4 of those are video ones that I exclude from the sync list on my Nano. Everything except for those 4 podcasts is set to allow auto delete.
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Have all my subscribed podcasts set to "keep all unplayed episodes"
Once I have finished listening to an episode, it doesn't automatically delete, even when the next episode is downloaded
I am getting a backlog of episodes all stored on my iPhone, with the only way to delete them being to do it manually, however when I do that they are removed from the list with no way of redownloading if I want to listen to them again.
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Having exactly the same problem. I've posted this on a few Apple related forums already - although admittedly not this one - but no answers yet. I get the feeling that other people are getting this to work so it's not a Podcast app bug.
I'm deleting listened to podcasts manually by swiping right on the podcast once I've listened to it.
I don't understand what I might not be doing - I have the podcast subscribed to and auto-delete is switched on and set to keep unplayed episodes only.
I've tried leaving some for a while in case there's a 'schedule' of some sort for when these listened-to podcasts get deleted but nothing has happened so far..and that's after eight weeks!

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Having exactly the same problem. I've posted this on a few Apple related forums already - although admittedly not this one - but no answers yet. I get the feeling that other people are getting this to work so it's not a Podcast app bug.
I'm deleting listened to podcasts manually by swiping right on the podcast once I've listened to it.
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Sometime around iOS6, Apple changed the behaviour of the Podcasts app. Instead of having to open the app to check for new episodes it would, if suitably configured, download new episodes in the background.
iOS8 seems to have broken this feature. Since upgrading my 4S, Podcasts will notify me (via the badge) that new episodes are available but will not begin to download them until the app itself is launched. All of my settings are as you would expect; automatic downloads are on, downloads over 3G are on just in case I lose WiFi, check time is 1 hour, Background App Refresh is enabled. But after an arbitrary time running in the background the Podcasts app will just stop fetching new episodes, until it's launched again.
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Hmm. It looks as though I may have jumped the gun on this one.
A couple of days after posting the first reply I awoke to find that, of two podcasts that should have downloaded overnight, only one had actually downloaded. The other was flagged as new when I woke the phone but only began downloading when I opened the Podcasts app. I put this down to a possible feed problem and ignored it.
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I'm not a developer but I am in communication with one, and he has demonstrated that there seems to be a new function in iOS8 that will kill certain background processes after almost exactly four hours of uptime. I have been able to see this first hand by looking at his app's log files.
Alas there are no such log files for the built-in Podcasts app, or at least not any available to the general user, so I can't know for certain whether this is what's happening here. But it definitely feels as though something might be timing out over longer periods than was happening before.
I need to do some more experimentation but here's what I think has happened here based on my experience and the vaguest of information from this blog post.
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iOS8.1 has changed things so that the "battery hungry" algorithm is less aggressive and no longer closes the Podcasts app. But the four hour timeout is still being applied, meaning that the Podcasts app will only do background downloads for a maximum of four hours before it needs restarting.
As I say, this is pure speculation but it certainly fits in with my experiences, the experiences of the developer I've spoken to, and what's written in that blog post regarding power management. I need to do some timed experiments to be certain, which may take a while, but it definitely feels as though only one of the issues has been fixed with this update.
I'm going to start by leaving the phone on continuously with the Podcasts app front and centre when I'm not using anything else. If my theory is correct, there should be no missed downloads because the four hour timeout won't get a chance to kick in. It's less than ideal because it's trying to prove a negative, but it's the best I can do.
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