Mac Energy Saving - Apple TV syncing

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem. But it's really difficult to sync anything to the Apple TV if your Mac computer keeps trying to save energy. When you're syncing to the Apple TV you're effectively not doing anything on your Mac, which means that 1 of 3 things can happen. The screensaver can come on, which will interupt the syncing. The display can go to sleep, which will interupt syncing. And the computer can go to sleep, which will interupt syncing.
Really, this is a Mac issue, but if you're syncing to your Apple TV, you don't want any of these 3 things to happen. You don't want your Mac going to sleep when you're trying to transfer a 1GB movie over WiFi to your Apple TV, especially when you get to 999MB, and have to restart the Sync

Actually just your display going to sleep doesn't kill syncing (at least it doesn't on my system). Make sure the checkbox for "put hard drive to sleep" when possible is unchecked and the put system to sleep slider is either unchecked, or set to like 3 hours so it has time to finish syncing.
I must admit, this is an area that is poorly implemented on the Mac; basically all the great energy saving settings have to basically be turned off to allow your Mac to work with ATV.
Apple needs to get on the ball and have the energy saving "recognize" when syncing is occurring and delay putting the system to sleep until the sync is done. Otherwise the entire base of users that own an ATV are now wasting energy they would rather not waste.

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