iTunes terminology - 'auto delete' is very unclear

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Can somebody please clear this up for me, as I don't understand what this mean s.

If I right-click the podcast group in iTunes, one of the menu items says either

"Allow Auto Delete" and if selected changes to "Do Not Allow Delete" like this...

podcast.jpg


How does it work - if "Allow Auto Delete" is showing, is it currently not allowing auto delete, and you need to click "allow auto delete" to make it do.
Or if "Allow Auto Delete" is showing, is it currently allowing Auto deletes...

I am finding this hard to explain, but to me, it isn't very obvious in what it means.
 
I would hazard a guess that it allows you to specify if you want the auto delete rules for podcasts setup in the preferences to be applyed to a podcast, say for instance you wanted to keep all, or your favorites of one podcast but only keep the 5 most recent of the others then you would use auto delete to do this and as for why its already selected is beyond me, unless the settings in the preference pane are set not to delete any thing.

Hope that helps, otherwise give apple a quick mail they are really helpful.
 
unknowndomain said:
I would hazard a guess that it allows you to specify if you want the auto delete rules for podcasts setup in the preferences to be applyed to a podcast, say for instance you wanted to keep all, or your favorites of one podcast but only keep the 5 most recent of the others then you would use auto delete to do this and as for why its already selected is beyond me, unless the settings in the preference pane are set not to delete any thing.

Hope that helps, otherwise give apple a quick mail they are really helpful.

Thanks for the reply. I actually know the purpose of it - whether to keep the podcasts of remove them after a certain amount of time. What I don't understand is which option does which. It it shows "Auto Delete All" (as per pic) - does that auto delete them, or not ?
 
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