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Q: Not all photos showing in screensaver

So far everything has been working great with my new Apple TV except for one thing. I created an iPhoto album with all of my favorite album covers (about 1250 in all) but the screensaver only shows a small subset. As the pics are alphabetical by artist, right now it seems to only be showing "C-E". It wouldn't bother me so much if it changed from time to time but it is always the same subset. Any suggestions?

iMac 2.8 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Apple TV ver. 2

Posted on Oct 20, 2010 3:05 PM

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  • by sungyle,

    sungyle sungyle Oct 20, 2010 5:11 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 20, 2010 5:11 PM in response to msilgalis
    Me too. Does anyone know why? Is there a limit to the number of albums one is allowed on Apple TV? I have 29 Album but the list is only showing 19+2 non-album items. Can somebody please enlighten me?
  • by cvillemac,

    cvillemac cvillemac Oct 20, 2010 5:35 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 20, 2010 5:35 PM in response to msilgalis
    I have a similar problem with uploaded photos. All the photos will show up when I look through them, but when I run the slide show, it will only show what seems like a specific time frame of photos and not all the photos.
  • by montgome,

    montgome montgome Oct 22, 2010 12:32 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 22, 2010 12:32 PM in response to msilgalis
    Had same issues as others. Have an album in iPhoto that I would like to sync with the apple tv. It only shows the first 100 pics or so even though I have about 11,000 pics in the album. Help!

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  • by msilgalis,

    msilgalis msilgalis Oct 22, 2010 3:55 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 22, 2010 3:55 PM in response to msilgalis
    Not sure what happened, but now it seems to be working fine. I certainly didn't change anything. Anyone else have an improvement?
  • by vetoche,

    vetoche vetoche Oct 22, 2010 4:07 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 22, 2010 4:07 PM in response to msilgalis
    I am having the same problem. The random photos simply loops in the same set of pictures. Has anyone been able to fix this? I think it is a bug in the new Apple TV software.
  • by jwcosta,

    jwcosta jwcosta Oct 22, 2010 6:59 PM in response to vetoche
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    Oct 22, 2010 6:59 PM in response to vetoche
    I have a slightly different problem, in that the screen saver only streams my iPhoto photos for a minute or two, and then stops. I tried to stream my photos as a screen saver while streaming songs from my iTunes library. The photo stream didn't even make it through one song and then stopped. Anyone having this problem?
  • by Leslie Turek,

    Leslie Turek Leslie Turek Oct 24, 2010 12:02 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 24, 2010 12:02 PM in response to msilgalis
    I'm having the same problem. I have a photo album of about 400 photos and I'm just getting a subset of them displayed in the screen saver. Very disappointing. My guess is that there's limited storage space on the device, so it just selects a random subset to download until the space is filled. I tried going into settings and selecting the same album again and I did get a different subset the second time. But after a few minutes the screen went black and the photos stopped scrolling. Bummer.
  • by James Harlin,

    James Harlin James Harlin Oct 25, 2010 8:59 AM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 25, 2010 8:59 AM in response to msilgalis
    This is sooo disappointing

    My favorite thing about the AppleTV was how beautifully is showed photos on the screen saver. Having only a few hundred photos in a screen saver is very boring as within a few minutes you've seen them all and you just feel like turning it off.

    I used to leave the screen saver on all the time when friends and family would visit. Its because of seeing the screen saver at my place that many of my friends bought an AppleTV over the last few years.

    Please, please Apple try to sort this one out.....please.
  • by msilgalis,

    msilgalis msilgalis Oct 26, 2010 5:40 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 26, 2010 5:40 PM in response to msilgalis
    This functionality seems to be working just fine now.
  • by James Harlin,

    James Harlin James Harlin Oct 29, 2010 3:22 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Oct 29, 2010 3:22 PM in response to msilgalis
    how did you get it to work. I can not get the screen saver to use more than about 100 photos.
  • by pocket8077,

    pocket8077 pocket8077 Oct 31, 2010 11:49 AM in response to James Harlin
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    Oct 31, 2010 11:49 AM in response to James Harlin
    James Harlin wrote:
    how did you get it to work. I can not get the screen saver to use more than about 100 photos.


    In addition to only seeing a fraction of the photos selected appear during a Screensaver sequence, I have also noticed the Screensaver reverts back to the "Animals" photoset on it's own. I'm still reading through other posts on that one, but yeah, the limit on the number of photos in a screensaver is weird.
  • by James Harlin,

    James Harlin James Harlin Nov 1, 2010 3:41 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Nov 1, 2010 3:41 PM in response to msilgalis
    I really hope they find a workaround too. I have also had issues with it going back to the animals screensaver.
  • by aschmid,

    aschmid aschmid Nov 19, 2010 12:43 AM in response to msilgalis
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    Nov 19, 2010 12:43 AM in response to msilgalis
    Same issue. Even though all photos library selected in Settings only a subset of photos is shown over and over again instead of the whole photo library. It seems to be the more recent ones.

    Anybody has any fix for this?
  • by Sean Hunter,

    Sean Hunter Sean Hunter Nov 20, 2010 12:52 PM in response to msilgalis
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    Nov 20, 2010 12:52 PM in response to msilgalis
    Hi...I am having the exact same problem, with a very limited subset of pictures showing in the Apple TV 2 screensaver. All of my software (iTunes, Snow Leopard) is completely up to date...I tried fooling the system by duplicating the album I am using (of 642 pics) and selecting the new album, but to no avail. This thread is listed as "Answered" when it clearly isn't. Has anyone found a solution? Apple, if you are monitoring this thread, this is an extremely irritating issue. Help! Thanks.

    Sean
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