I have a generation 1 Appletv with the hard drive. I have just bought a new mac, but cant seem, to sync photos back to appletv hard drive anymore, i know the Imac is syncing with it because i purchased a movie from Apple TV and it loaded it reg on iMac

Hi louchad,

The article below should help you sync the photos from your iMac to your Apple TV:

Apple TV (1st generation): Syncing photos via iTunes

The article explains this in more detail with screen shots, but the key points are summarized below for you:

To sync photos from a Mac or Windows PC to Apple TV (1st generation) using photo applications

1. Make sure you have iTunes 9.0.2 or later.
2. In iTunes, select the Apple TV icon in the Devices list.
3. Click the Photos tab.
4. Select "Sync photos from: ..."
   • On a Mac, choose iPhoto or Aperture from the pop-up menu.
   • On a Windows PC, choose Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements from the pop-up menu.
   • Note: Some versions of Photoshop Album and Photoshop Elements don't support collections. You can still use them to sync all your photos.
5. If you want to sync all your photos, select "All photos, albums, events, and faces." If you want to sync photos from only some albums, events, faces, or collections, choose "Selected albums, events, and faces…" and select the albums or collections you want.

To sync photos from a folder on your hard disk to Apple TV (1st generation)

1. Drag the images you want into a folder on your computer. If you want images to appear in separate photo albums on Apple TV (1st generation), create folders inside the main image folder, and drag images into the new folders.
2. In iTunes, select the Apple TV icon in the Devices list.
3. Choose "Sync photos from: ..."
4. Select "Choose Folder" from the pop-up menu and select your image folder.

I hope this information helps ...

- Judy

You have tried to connect the ATV1 as described before ?

Trying to connect via WIFI ? Can you try to connect via LAN ? Do unplug the ATV from power and TV and restart once, prior to trying to the pairing process. When you that, you see the 5 digits that you are supposed to enter in iTunes, right ? But ATV does not show up on the devices list ?

pls do reply, there are a lot of other users with a similar/same problem and there are number of different solutions available. One more question: Itunes version is which one ? and the OS Version ?

regards Manfred