Apple TV purchased TV programs wont sync to iTunes

Hi all,
Got a frustrating problem. I just bought 2 TV series on my ATV. My Mac was not usable for a few days as we had visitors and I was demoing the ATV.
later I tried to sync the purchased program to iTunes, and nothing happened. Got the usual syncing message in iTunes, but the programs were not copied.
Tried again using the transfer purchased items from Apple TV menu item, same results. powered down and rebooted both the ATV and computer, still no joy.
Next tried to report a problem via iTunes store, got the standard "Im XXX and here to help you but I have no idea" email.
Anyone got a solution (maybe manually transferring the files from the ATV HD??? or a way to transfer things over. Im worried about loosing the fils on the next resync/software update.
Thanks

Ive solved this problem for myself. As my ATV is out of warranty, I removed the HD and copied the contents to a spare drive.
I tried to load a single episode into itunes, it worked ok. I then noticed that although I had plenty of disc space free, I only had about 11Gb free, so I moved my itunes library to another disc where I had several hundred free. When I restarted iTunes, the TV programs started to copy across normally, so I guess it was a disc space issue?
anyway, I then reinitialised the ATV back to factory spec and upgraded again to a clean sysem and all files re-synched normally.
Anyone else with this problem should check the free disc space first.

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