Comment 3 for bug 236326

To trigger the bug:

* Select a podcast you are subscribed to, with some episodes already
downloaded. A list is shown of episodes that are available at the podcast
provider, with more information available on those that have already been
downloaded.

* Right-click on an episode that has already been downloaded. Select the
option to delete the podcast. A dialog box with three buttons will pop up.
One is Cancel. Another says "Delete the episode only". The other says
"Delete the episode and the file"

At this point, many people will wonder what exactly is "the episode" and
what is "the file". This should really be clarified.

* If the option "delete episode and file" is chosen, that episode's entry
disappears from the list. Presumably, the sound file has also been erased
from the file system.

* If the option "delete episode only" is chosen, that episode's entry
disappears from the list. The sound file remains somewhere in the file
system, but where, or why, is not really clear. *I* do know the file is
somewhere below the folder that has been chosen for podcast downloads, but I
doubt that a naive user will easily find it; and even then, finding the lost
episode in its folder is very difficult, because filenames for soundfiles
are not the same as episode names. And, in any case, there are no options to
add it again to Rhythmbox.

If I wanted to recover disk space by deleting old episodes, I'd have to use
the "delete episode and file" option, but then all references to those
episodes would be forever lost, with no way offered to download again. There
should be an option to delete the sound file only, that still left me with
the entry in the index. Or an option to reload the full list of available
episodes.

If I want to clear the episode index by erasing the oldest ones, the two
current options would do, However, "delete episode only" will leave
difficult to purge sound files dormant in the filesystem. And Rhythmbox
offers no way to download the full episode list again from the provider.

The other problem is when a podcast download does not finish successfully:
In those cases, a partial file may be kept by Rhythmbox, but there is no way
to resume the download, and there is no way to delete the incomplete file
and then fully reload, because the podcast index entry would be
irrecoverably deleted with the sound file.

That's why I say that to correct the problem, the options in the dialog
should be:

* Delete soundfile only
* Delete soundfile and index entry.

AND there should be an option in the podcast menu to refresh the full
episode list. Currently, the podcast refresh option only gets the index
entries for NEW episodes.

With these three changes, it would be easy to recover disk space by only
deleting the soundfiles; it would be easy to redo failed downloads, by
deleting the failed soundfile and downloading again; and it would be easy to
get rid of old episodes, but the possibility would remain to get at them
again.