If you have been using iTunes for any stretch of time, and are an avid podcast listener, you may have experienced iTunes locking/freezing up on you, either momentarily or to the point where you have to force-quit the application.
Asking the Goog revealed a lot of half-baked solutions where people want you to clear out your entire music library and start over. While that does indeed solve the problem for most people (unless their system is truly wrecked), it seemed too invasive to me and I decided there had to be another solution.
It turns out that iTunes will occasionally fudge up the temp download folder either by being stupid or if you quit the iTunes application, which seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, if you want to resume downloading podcasts, say, the day after.
So, for some of you this might actually work:
Navigate do your iTunes download temp folder and clean it out.
When that’s done, restart iTunes and your downloads should start over.
Note to self: In the future I will probably choose to pause all downloads before I quit the application. It may be in vain, but I’m going to do that from now on.
