hello!

This procedure isn’t necessary any more.

I’m running iTunes 7.4.1.2 and I’ve been waiting to move some podcasts over from my old laptop over to my new desktop. To clarify: both machines are subscribed to the podcasts, but the laptop I don’t use so it only has the old podcasts on. And I want these old ones moved to the new computer.

I don’t let iTunes manage my MP3s, HOWEVER all podcasts are obviously stored in the default iTunes music folder. So I just copied all the podcast files in there, to where other (but different) episodes from the same subscription existed.

If I go to File > Add Folder to Library (or File > Add File to Library, or even File > Import if you like), these files can be imported correctly to the library, and they appear in Podcasts (not Music) and are also nested under the correct subscription.

They will be marked as unplayed, but other than that, your procedure doesn’t seem to be necessary any more and two sets of podcasts can be consolidated without troubles :-)