Apple TV Photo Syncing - what a disaster. Anyone have an idea?

Question

I'm new to the ATV - my son gave me one for Christmas. I have been trying to like it, but it continues to frustrate me. I really wanted to use it to stream photos to my TV, but for some reason, Apple has decided that you can either stream or sync, but not both. I am able to stream videos from a NAS thru the ATV, but not Photos. Ridiculous. After doing some experimenting, I saw that the ATV actually reduces the size of synced photos, so my fairly large (100,000+) collection would actually fit on the device. So, I spent the weekend syncing my photos to it, taking up about 49GB of file space to store 400GB of photos. Although the ATV ran slower, all of the photos were there. I made one small change, and clicked to sync, and five hours later it was still trying to syncronize. At that point, I stopped the process, rebooted ATV and closed ITunes. When I tried to sync again, I received a message from ITunes that it was unable to communicate with the ATV. I left it for an hour or so, and when I looked again, things had not changed. At this point, I deleted the link between the ATV and Itunes, and set it up again. When the ATV restarted, there were only about 300 pictures on it. When I relinked with Itunes, they were completely gone.
How the &(*$ is this possible? What engineer in their right mind would design a device to delete its files like this? What a horrible, horrible machine. I was just starting to like apple, and this has got me longing for Redmond again.
Can someone tell me if I am wasting my time trying to make this work?

Answer 1

+*You do know that I am just a user here like you?*+
+*We are not Apple employees, just other people trying to help out.*+
+*You can link many computers to the Apple TV, just as you like, BUT when you remove the link the content is deleted, that is the way it is. Don't blame me I'm just telling you the facts.*+
+*I can't read your mind, how do I know you have been patient since Dec or using a cable to transfer content.*+
+*If you don't understand the product or how to use it, don't take it out on me.*+
+*I have stopped following this thread, so I will not see any replies you may give.*+
+*Good luck!*+
Yes, I understand that you are just a user, and I appreciate your feedback. That's why I thanked you for your assistance. If you are offended because I responded and clarified by addressing your comments, I am sorry. That was not my intent. That doesn't change my opinion that it is a ridiculous process to delete data without allowing me to request or confirm the action first. Not blaming YOU, just stating my opinion. I also didn't expect you to read my mind, or know details that I had not provided previously. That's why I told you.
Jeez. You are way too sensitive.