Apple TV doesn't show my photos

Hi,
I have my pictures in Iphoto on my mountain lion Imac, on an external hd.
When I enter Apple TV, my music and my films/movies (that are also on the same external drive) show up but not the pictures, not even the picture menu.
I do not see why. Can anybody help?
Thks in advance
Markus

I found the problem. My iphoto folder was in a subfolder on the external drive. When I moved it outside of this folder and put it on the first level of the drive it showed up in Apple TV.

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Until early this Sunday morning when I discovered this solution, my iMac would not sync with the Apple TV. This problem began after the most recent Apple TV software update. I neglected to mention in my previous posts that my Apple TV was connected to the Internet via an Ethernet connection.
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p.s.s. I think Apple should make all of us, their consumers, more aware of how to let Apple know about these issues because this issue was so frustrating and throughout the whole troubleshooting process I felt very helpless and would have felt so much more positive about Apple if I just had a forum in which I could let Apple know I was having this issue (above and beyond this user forum through which I ended up losing much of my iTunes album artwork after following one person’s advice).
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