How To Prevent ATV From Deleting Previously Synced Files?

Hi,
Due to the limited size of my laptop hard drive I have to move the downloaded movies and music video from iTunes to an external USB hard drive after syncing them with the ATV.
I double click in iTunes the moved file to relocate it again on the external drive so it won't appear as a missing or deleted file.
But just today, iTunes started to sync a new downloaded movie and erased all of the files that I removed from the laptop hard drive.
So who can I prevent ATV from deleting those relocated files?
Thanks.

if itunes opens up and the external drive is not attached, it is going to flag any file it references on the external drive as unavailable. if the file is not made available and located by itunes before the apple tv syncs with itunes, then the file will also be made unavailable to the apple tv (correct me if i've got this wrong, but i'm fairly certain this is how it goes).
itunes and apple tv utilize a sync relationship, and in any device/host sync relationship one or the other has to win during a database conflict.
iTunes always wins if the file originates from itunes (i say this because when you purchase from the ATV, the ATV will push the file to iTunes that first time, but afterward if you remove it from iTunes it will be removed from the Apple TV. This is a little bit off subject but it is relevant as it is the only time the Apple TV gets to win). Otherwise, if it's not in iTunes, it won't be on the apple tv (when the two sync with each other).
if you want to prevent the ATV from deleting the relocated files, make sure they are available in itunes when the ATV syncs with itunes.
let us know if you make any observations where the files are available and this continues to happen.

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