Once in awhile, I find that my podcasts don’t download completely. Here I am, listening to the show in iTunes or on my iPod, and suddenly the episode just stops. I look closely and realize the the episode’s total running time is shorter than is supposed to be. The balance of the show is just not there.
I’m not sure why this happens. It just might be that due to network congestion, the download times out or something.
This happened this week when I attempted to download Apple’s keynote presentation from the World Wide Developers Conference. It’s a mammoth video file that is now available via Apple’s Keynote Podcast.
There’s no obvious way to reload the episode. But here’s how you do it:
- Click on “Podcasts” in iTunes.
- Expand the podcast in question and then delete the bad and/or missing episodes (by selecting and hitting “delete” key).
- Collapse the podcast by clicking the triangle, and then expand it while holding the option key. This will cause iTunes to totally update all episodes in the podcast. It will add the other episodes back in and restore the item you just deleted.
- Click the “Get” button to re-download the episode in question.
Thanks to “plutopup65″ for the tip.
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