MacLife

Step three: Move your media to an external drive

Pod save the cast

The Podcasts app just had to be different, didn’t it? Hold Opt while clicking the Go menu in the Finder and open Library. Inside the subfolder Group Containers, find the catchily named 243LU875E5. groups.com.apple.podcasts. Inside this is a folder called Library (again), and inside that, in Caches, are your podcasts. They’re in standard .mp3 or .m4a formats, but with meaningless names.

You can copy these files to back up your podcasts, but don’t try to move or delete them. Instead, open Podcasts, click Downloaded, then hover over the duration at the right of any

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from MacLife

MacLife4 min read
Help! How Do I Back Up My Mac?
DO YOU HAVE too many backups, or not enough? Can you easily recover from the backups you do have? Here we talk you through how you can create and restore from Time Machine backups, and also how to clone your internal and external drives using third–p
MacLife1 min read
Paying The Piper
Separate to the complaints over integrations, platforms and payment methods — but still crucially important as these platforms develop — is the amount Spotify and Apple Music actually pay the people that make the music. Spotify is clear: it pays righ
MacLife3 min read
Ask
THERE’S MORE TO Live Text than meets the eye. Although normally seen at work in its quick mode interactively recognizing snippets of text in our photos, it can also work more slowly and accurately. That’s been built into a new generation of third–par

Related Books & Audiobooks