Hi there everyone, I have purchased hundreds of movies and tv series over the last few years and can have not got enough space on my laptop so I have, put them all on to a WD 1 TB hard drive , I have just bought apple tv and am trying to stream my media f

Hi there everyone I have had to store my iTunes library on an external WD 1tb hard drive,
Problem is I've just bought apple tv and can't stream my iTunes library from my external hard drive, i have to keep copying what things I need to watch or listen to to iTunes and then stream it that way and it's very time consuming, please excuse my ignorance, but is there a way around this

As per the question, really...
"My Apple TV (1st Gen) will not synch with iTunes on my Laptop"
There's no error messages
Only the films i've bought on my AppleTV appear on my AppleTV
It's been synching for over 4 hours and hasnt got past the first film and the progress bar is not moving
David

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