Photo folders not showing on ATV

Question

Hi,
Just set up my new ATV yesterday, and overall I really like it. However, I do have one problem with photo syncing.
I set up iTunes to sync all the contents of a folder on my iMac called "Photos". All 2,500 photos appear to have synced to the ATV. The problem has to do with sub-folders, or more specifically sub-sub-folders.
My "Photos" folder has two main sub-folders within it, each of which in turn contains multiple sub-folders. For example, the "Photos" folder has a sub-folder called "By date", which in turn contains sub-folders named by the date the photos were taken (e.g. "Jan 2009"). On the ATV, when I go to "My Photos", I am shown a list of the top-level sub-folders, one of which is this "By date" sub-folder. But when I click on the "By date" folder, I am not shown a list of the available sub-folders - I am simply shown thumbnails of all the photos from all the sub-folders in this "By date" folder together. It's as though the "By date" folder didn't contain any sub-folders, and all the photos in the sub-folders were just all together in the "By date" folder. Obviously this makes it rather difficult if I want to look at photos from a specific collection or time period.
Anyone else had this problem? Anyone recommend a solution?
Thanks in anticipation,
Rob

Answer 1

robgrayson wrote:
Strange thing is that ATV does indeed show subfolders, but seemingly only down to one level.
May be that was what I remember - eitehr way it wan't good for the way I had photos organised (Year/Month/Event folders).
Don't think there's an automatic way of getting each folder to import into an album as ilife 08 at least split stuff into events based on date (which could easily be merged) but you then had to create an album from the event.
Maybe some kind of smart album setups would work.
Try asking the knowledgeable folk in the iphoto forum.