Complete iPhoto library not displayed by Apple TV

I have the 2nd generation Apple TV with home sharing active with MacbookPro 15" with all the latest iLife '11 software. One issue is that events from one iPhoto library are displayed in a different order on Apple TV than on iPhoto. No big problem, but confusing. Second, bigger issue is with larger iPhoto library (51,000 photos and 850 events). Only about 1/4 of the events show up in Apple TV, and strangely, they are in the same order as in iPhoto. The Apple TV apparently has an 8GB flash memory for buffering. Is this a limiting factor in how large an iPhoto library that can be displayed by the Apple TV?

There is a limit based on the 8GB internal storage on the ATV2. I confirmed this with Express Lane support today. ATV2 will try to load your entire library but will stop when it gets to the limit and does not provide any messages stating that the limit has been reached. This means that you will get roughly the first 20,000 of your library, starting with the most recent.
The work around is to select which albums or folders from iPhoto that are to be synced, much like you would do for an iPod or iPhone that can't fit your whole music or photo library. This selection process is done in iPhoto's Sharing preferences where you select Share my photos and choose the second option to Share selected albums. Note that the list will contain iPhoto folders as well as albums.
Once you reach the 8GB limit, you may also have a problem playing the video files in your iPhoto library that appear to have been synced, as the full videos are not loaded until they are selected for playing. Once that is tried, ATV2 will likely crash as the 8GB limit is exceeded. No harm is done to your library that is safe.
This whole process is not well supervised by the ATV2 system as it keeps the user in the dark.

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