Sharing photos since iphotos became photos

Hi,
I have a large photo collection on my mac book pro, which I shared with my wifes account (via /User/Shared) using iphotos. Each of our Pictures directory had a symbolic link to the User/Shared directory (same group). This worked very well with the Apple TV.
Now we had moved to Photos from iPhotos.
Again the Photos directory is in /Users/Shared, and each of or photos account point to this one Photos database (I have have to use the /user/Shared path, as a symbolic link did not work)
I now turn on the Apple TV, and through the iTunes it is after a directory where the photos are. The default directory is Pictures, and it does not "see" a symbolic link to the /Users/Shared directory. I then chose the /User/Shared directory (from the Photo Sharing Preferences in itunes), and it can't "see" the shared new Photos directory ....
So at present I can display any photos to the Apple TV.
Does anyone have any thoughts ??
Many thanks for you time in reading this
Colin Thomas

Recently Apple announce they are monitoring these forums. Even so, I suspect that as in the past, this is still mostly users talking to other users. If threre is something you think Apple should hear, they do want to hear it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
I already reported my issue to Apple as a bug. My system was working, then part of it related to network use stopped about the same time Apple released a software update intended to fix other networking issues. Viewing Photos library on iCloud also had been working but stopped about the same time. To me it seems likely that in fixing one issue, Apple created another. I came here to see if others also had issues, or if my problem was because I was missing something. Seems like others have issues also.
I recommend you report your problem to Apple via the link above. They may not know there is a problem unless we tell them;
Tom

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