# I broke my database? (app can't find my downloaded podcasts)
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044 "2021-06-14T03:01:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@BerryN](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/BerryN)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044/1 "2021-06-14T03:01:02Z")
**App version** : 2.2.1, from Google Play
**Android version** : 8.1.0
**Device model** : Blackberry Key2
**Expected behaviour** : clicking on a downloaded podcast (that has the play arrow), it should play
**Current behaviour** : program says File Not Found, and the play arrow changes to the download arrow.
**First occurred** : Noticed it just today
**Steps to reproduce** : (see above)
1. This
2. Then that
3. Then this
4. Etc.
**Environment** : I think I “broke” this. I changed to a larger microSD card and copied everything over, forgetting about all the podcasts I had downloaded. I think the timing coincides with the SD card swap. If I download a new podcast, it will play it, but previously downloaded podcasts have the issue described above. If I go to the SD card, it looks like all my old podcasts are in Android/data/de.danoeh.antennapod/files/media/ , but the app no longer recognizes them there. If I re-download them, it creates a second copy.
Is there anyway to fix this without deleting all of the ones I already have downloaded and re-downloading them?
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### Author:  [@BerryN](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/BerryN)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044/2 "2021-06-14T03:14:33Z")
I also just noticed that if I go into file manager and click on the podcast to open it, my phone does not give me an option to use AP to play it, though I don’t know if it ever did that previously, since I’ve never tried it. I did recently add MediaMonkey, so it asks me if I would like to play it using either MM or VLC.
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### Author:  [@BerryN](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/BerryN)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044/3 "2021-06-14T15:55:51Z")
Looks like I’m pretty much out of luck - the database fix described here, maybe, sounds above my parade: -(
> [@Manualy copy backup in folder](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/manualy-copy-backup-in-folder/365/2):
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> Hi! Moving downloads to another device is not supported - only the database with playback state, subscriptions and favorites. While technical users could modify the database export to make it work, re-downloading the episodes is by far the easier option.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/i-broke-my-database-app-cant-find-my-downloaded-podcasts/1044/4 "2022-02-25T08:11:25Z")