Getting files via Channels

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1. Click the options menu on the upper right part of the Pando Extra window.
2. Select Channels.



3. We supply you with a few sample feeds, none of which are turned on by default.
   Or, to add another, click Add Channels in the upper right part of the Options window. A new window will open.
4. Click on Open Pando Channel Directory to find one (or more!) that you might like. (Or just click here to go to the directory right now!)
5. When you find one you want to add, click the Subscribe with Pando button, which will open the Add Channels window in Pando.
6. By default, Pando will automatically download new Packages published to that Channel onto your computer. If you'd rather Pando just show you the available files in your Channels tab so you can choose which ones to download, uncheck the box next to "Auto-download."
7. The default setting for new Channels is to automatically delete Packages, starting with the oldest, to make room for new ones. (More info on that below!) If you'd rather not have Pando automatically delete Packages from your Channels list at all, uncheck the box next to "Auto-delete." If you would like to change the threshold (number of Packages) at which Pando starts deleting, leave the box checked but change the number -- the default is 3 -- to whatever you wish.
8. Click subscribe.

Another way:
If you have a specific Channel you want to add, you can:

1. Click the options menu on the upper right part of the window.
2. Select Channels.
3. Click + Add Channels in the upper right part of the Options window. A new window will open.
4. Enter the URL of a Channel in the text box (note: you can usually right-click an RSS icon on a site, choose “Copy Link Location,” then paste the link into the text box). Click the test button to make sure the feed will work. If the link is a valid link but doesn’t currently have any .pando files, you can still subscribe to it and Pando will check it regularly for .pando files
5. Then pick up with step 6 above.

Unsubscribing from a Channel:

1. Click the options menu. Select Channels.
2. Find the unwanted Channel in the list. Select it. Click the Off button to stop Pando from checking for new files. The Channel will remain in this list. Or, click Delete to stop Pando from checking for new files and remove the Channel from the list.

Download Channel Packages automatically
By default, Pando will check the Channel (every 6 hours or whenever you login to Pando) for any new Packages and automatically download them.
If you'd rather Pando just show you the available files in your Channels tab so 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 automatically to make room for new ones. The way that it works is this:

• New Packages come in, and are either automatically downloaded or manually chosen by you to be downloaded (depending on how you have auto-download set).
• Once you hit the magic number of downloaded Packages for that Channel -- say, three, which is the default -- the next new Package to come along will also trigger the oldest of those three already-downloaded files to be deleted from your computer. So you'll still only have three downloaded Packages total for that Channel.
• You can make individual Packages exempt from this rule: Click the "pushpin" icon next to a downloaded Package on the My Channels tab that you want to keep. A little blue box appears around the pushpin, signalling that the file is "kept" -- that is, it will not be deleted, even if it's the oldest downloaded Package for that Channel, and it also won't 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 would like.
4. Repeat for each active Channel.

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