Soroush Javidi

A very short and quick tip here!

It's happened to me that when I click on the Refresh button in the podcast section of iTunes, not only do new shows start to download (which is a good thing), but so do some old shows from way back as 6 months ago! I've found that irritating, as I have to go and cancel the download and delete the files that have been put in queue (the ones in grey colour).

Well, I've just found a solution:-
Right click on any (or selection) of podcasts that you think are old and select Mark as Not New. On the other hand, if you would want the old shows to download (or you accidentally selected a new show), just right click again select Mark as New. Short and simple!

Edit: After playing with this more, it seems that the 'Mark as Not New' option behaves like the old 'Mark as Played' option, which toggles a blue dot on and off. I think it just a stroke of luck that the old podcasts stopped downloading, because they're back up again... and I had to click Refresh, and then delete all the grey coloured items. It went through all the dates from August 2006 to January 2007 and I deleted every batch and it's finally stopped [hopefully!].