40,000+ photo library takes forever to load.

Appden, I have the same router and is experiencing lousy performance, care to give more details on what you did on your DGN3500 to get it to work? Are you running your devices wifi or on lan?

I have the same problem. The Apple TV can see the library but won't load it. I have a new IMAC. 1st mac ever so i'm not experienced. I fixed my problem by rebooting the Apple TV by "Pressing and holding both Menu and a Down on the Apple Remote until the Apple TV status light blinks rapidly". Once I did this the library popped right up.

Up until this, I had even powered down the Apple TV to no avail. My ATV could see the computer library, but it would not load it. Hopefully this helps the rest of you.

Its a bit of hit and miss. The first time loaded the library (with about 65,000 it did it in about 5 minutes. Almost every subsequent time I have given up after about 10 minutes of loading. There was one time it did manage to load in about 5 minutes. Even when I took the photo library down to less than 100, its hit and miss. Sometimes it will load in 2 or 3 minutes (I have a 95 gig itune library) and sometimes it will hang, but at least it USUALLY loads. The only solution I have been able to come with it to ensure that I never turn off my desktop and never shut down itunes, which is a very poor workaround. I was going to buy 2 more aATV for bedroom and living room and as Xmas gifts for 2 friends, but thats on hold until apple fixes the problem.

Same here - very disappointing.

I've got 43K + photos... Got the ATV2 yesterday and they have not loaded yet. I got up to watch the eclipse last night and set ATV2 to 'never sleep'... still no pictures today. This is the main reason I bought ATV2 - that and it was cheap. I have an ATV1 and I may just stay with it and return this one.

+"I fixed my problem by rebooting the Apple TV by "Pressing and holding both Menu and a Down on the Apple Remote until the Apple TV status light blinks rapidly". Once I did this the library popped right up. "+

Doing a reboot with the Menu and down arrow procedure did the trick. Problem solved.

I have the same problem with PHOTOs loading. tens of thousands of photos in aperture shared thru home sharing thru itunes.

Loading my library very slow (many many minutes, 10 minutes or so). Reloads also often.

Tried closing the iTunes and opening again. No effect on loading speed.

Tried taking airport express off from my network. No effect on loading speed.

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Verified my firewall settings. First fully open. No effect on loading speed.

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Then had firewall closed but itunes to accept incoming connection. No effect on loading speed.

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Tried resetting the AppleTV 2nd generation with menu and download. Select restore to factory settings and update the latest update. No effect on loading speed.

Any other tricks I could try...

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Upgraded my aiport extreme to 7.5.2 - no effect on loading speed

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simplified my airport network by having only one (the airport extreme basestation), turned the power off from my airport express + one older airport base station - no effect on loading speed

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changed the airport extreme to have only pure .n 2.4ghz speed (no b/g compatibility mode) - no effect on loading speed

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Rebooted the AppleTV - no effect on loading speed.

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Changed only a few pictures (some hundreds) to be shared to AppleTV from the Aperture library of tens of thousands - no effect on loading speed

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Tried even the "create home share" without pressing the done button. No effect.

Creating the home share again with pressing the done button. No effect on loading speed.

And of course tried quitting itunes and opening it again. No effect.

At the same time access to the net is very fast from AppleTV.

Sharing with Airplay from iPad works great.

Any other tricks to try?

I have the same problem : 30.000 photos truncated at 20.000 and that take 5 minutes to load...
I also regret the lack of subfolders.

WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!!!

PS : what a delight it would be if I could control the sound volume with the sole Apple TV remote...

Ninozinho wrote:
I have the same problem : 30.000 photos truncated at 20.000 and that take 5 minutes to load...
I also regret the lack of subfolders.

WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!!!

PS : what a delight it would be if I could control the sound volume with the sole Apple TV remote...

If you use iPhoto or Aperture instead of just a regular folder as the source, the photo organization is quite nice. With iPhoto, it's organized by Events, Albums, and Faces just like on your Mac and you can choose only certain ones if you want to reduce the number of photos shared. Plus all your folders and smart albums show up as well.

I do use iPhoto and I organize my albums with folders and subfolders... that I lose on the Apple TV.
I would like to share all of my pictures on my Apple TV whereas it is limited at 20,000 😟

Tell me about it, as a keen amateur I take photos all the time. I have a big photo stash been taking digital pics since around 2001.

Gutted that I can only stream 20k. After putting them all onto my imac and taking over 2 days of my life to put them into the correctly dated events !!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well it needed doing, and for the first time ever all of my digital photos are in one place.

The only way I have found to make the photo browsing usable is to only share one or two events. Even then, it takes a few moments to load, and it's of course not optimal to have to change the setup on the computer every time I want to show some photos to my family. Embarrassing.