How do I stop Apple TV from trying to sync Gigabytes of Movies to laptop

Hi,
Ever since I got the apple TV and synced with it with my laptop I've never wanted the TV to try and load all the movies that I'd bought on it to my laptop because the laptop simply does not have the free disk space to do it.
I can find no option to stop it from happening each and every time I try to sync with it.
I want to view my photos mainly on the apple tv and now it always fails because it's first trying to put 10 - at the moment multi-gigabite movies onto the laptop first. There is a little tick box that says sync photos first but it don't work. Massive Movies first and always. Photos never now sync.
Help this is so frustrating. I can find no setting in iTunes, please tell me this is simple.
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
The Apple TV is very unlike and iPod to me because I can buy and download massive movies. That's the big difference it has 140gb free my laptop 10gb. I don't want to migrate my iTunes Libary to an external drive just because I can't choose which movies to sync back off the Apple TV to my laptop. You can after all buy and run an Apple TV without any computer to sync it to can't you.
If what you are saying is true and I don't have the option to choose which files go back to the laptop I'm stuffed. All I wanted to do was watch movies on my Apple TV and Sync my Photos and music to it.
Not to have to pointlessly waste gigerbites of memory on my laptop because of course that's why I bought an Apple TV to watch movies on my big TV not on a pointlessly small laptop screen. That's also why I bought an Apple TV with a 160gb hard disk. There should have been a warning then with every single Apple TV saying that if you don't have at least 160gb free on the computer you're trying to sync with the Apple TV don't even think about purchasing it.
I don't want to also wait ages for failed attempt after failed attempt for it to sync the movies before the 4mb of pictures I really wanted.
I can see what your saying but if that is the way the Apple TV really works then it's a very serious flaw indeed.

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