Syncing appletv 1st gen

i'm totally new to appletv, so bear with me... i just got a 1st gen 160gb version.. just a basic question when syncing..
the first time i did a sync, i put all my itunes music (maybe 20gb), a few southparks, all my photos, and some podcasts on there.. total of about 25-30 gb (sorry i didn't pay attention to the exact amount).. it took quite a while, on a wired connection.. then i went to add some movies from my external hard drive on my network, and from what i can tell, it wiped the appletv clean, and started to re-sync everything.. like starting from scratch.. not just leaving what was already on there in place, and adding movies.. but deleting the appletv entirely, and re-syncing all the stuff that was already on there all over again, and adding the movies after that.. is this how it will do it every time?
i guess my point is, with my iphone, you make moderate changes, it updates only the changes, not wiping it clean and taking forever to re-sync everything?!?! i could be totally off base, or just not understand any of this. but it takes so long to sync this appletv, if i wanna add a few things, i don't wanna re sync for a million hours to add a few new photos, or songs, cuz it does a bare bones from scratch delete and re load

Firstly if you want control you should ensure that you have Custom Sync enabled for the AppleTv by going into the Device setup tabs for AppleTV 1 i iTunes.
Be aware that by default content not synced over to the hard drive will stream automatically when itunes is running and appear merged in the AppleTV lists with the synced content - this can confuse as when you shut iTunes it looks as though lots has disappeared from AppleTV. (you can choose show only synced items in Settings in itunes)
So firstly confirm you've got custom sync set up in Settings tab in iTunes.
You cannot drag and drop to AppleTv like a custom iPod management, you must do it via individual tabs in AppleTV device in iTunes.
Pay attention to the dropdown optinons too which may cause watched material to be replaced by unwatched when AppleTV space is low.

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Thanks for the reply! I copied the iTunes Music folder to a removeable drive so I don't lose any of the info before disconnecting with AppleTV.
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Either import to iTunes using iTunes' File>Add to Library and navigating to the iTunes media folder on the external or drag and drop this folder onto itunes to copy it over.
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KelsonGoodfellow wrote:
Well that is unfortunate, it seems that those of us that bought into Apple's AppleTV from the beginning are getting short changed.
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