Downloading Channel Packages automatically:

By default, Pando will check the Channel every hour (or whenever you login to Pando) and automatically download new Packages. If you'd rather Pando just show you the available files in your Channels tab so that you can choose which ones to download, follow these steps:

1. Click the options menu on the upper right part of the window.
2. Select Channels.
3. Select an active RSS Channel from the list. Uncheck the box next to Auto-download packages published to this Channel.
4. Repeat for each active Channel.

Deleting old Channel Packages automatically:
If you subscribe to several different Channels, and each of these Channels produces shiny new Packages pretty often, you may find your hard drive starting to fill up. And often you will only want to watch or listen to these files once. So Pando is set up by default to delete older Channel Packages and make room for new ones automatically. The way it works is this:

• Packages come in for each Channel you subscribe to. They are lovely, shiny, and new.
• Once the Channel hits the magic number of downloaded Packages -- say, three, which is the default -- the oldest downloaded file for that Channel is deleted to make way for the new one. So you'll still only have three downloaded Packages total for that Channel.
• You can make individual Packages exempt from this rule: From the Channels tab in Pando’s main window, click to highlight the episode you like, and press the keep button. A little blue pushpin appears, signaling that the file will not be deleted. It won't even count toward the "magic number" that triggers a file to be deleted.

To change the auto-delete settings for each Channel:

1. Click the options menu on the upper right part of the window.
2. Select Channels.
3. Select an active RSS Channel from the list. To turn off auto-delete completely for that Channel, uncheck the box next to Auto-delete oldest package.... To adjust the threshold at which older Packages start getting deleted, change the default (3) to whatever number you like.
4. Repeat for each active Channel.

Deciding where Channel episodes are downloaded:
All the episodes downloaded to My Channels are stored on your local hard drive for easy access. By default, Pando places them in the directory: c: \Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Pando Packages\Channels\
Of course you may want to change this (say, to your iTunes podcast folder) and it’s very easy to do so:

1. Click the options menu on the upper right part of the window.
2. Select Channels.
3. Click on the link next to Download to: and select any ol’ place on your hard drive.