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I have 2 Apple Tv's in different parts of the house on a wired gigabit CAT 6 network. Everything has been fine until a couple days ago when all of my TV Shows older than a couple days disappeared off both Apple TVs. I have over 300 movies and almost 2500 TV shows on a server. I use my iMac to run iTunes off the server and host the Apple TV's. Everything still shows up in iTunes and plays fine. All of of the 300+ movies still show up on both Apple TVs when streaming and the newest 10 show up on the Apple TVs when iTunes is not running as I have selected. All TV shows are displayed in the TV Show tab in iTunes to select to sync. However, only the shows I have downloaded in the past 2 days show up on the Apple TVs either streaming or synced. And, the exact same shows are the only ones that will show up on either Apple TV so I do not think it is a problem with the Apple TV itself. I have tried adding and deleting the Apple TVs, restarting, restarting iTunes, syncing shows and unsyncing shows and I cannot get all of my old shows to stream and cannot get the shows I selected to sync to transfer. Everything worked fine until a couple days ago and I haven't done anything since except buy that Michael Moore season of The Awful Truth. Karma? Any thoughts on fixing it?

Dear Maceyz,
Thank you for posting your solution, very kind of you. I'm contemplating multiple apple tv's, family room and master, and I thought you might be able to help me, if so inclined.
Can the two apple tvs' share movies or does everything run through my home computer like a server? Should I get a true server, (my company and in-house techs have servers to spare), to run my household?
Trying to figure our what you've probably already gone through. Thank you in advance for any help you might offer.
Kindest Regards,
Dave Latona
[email protected]

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