The way this works is that, every time I start iTunes on my computer, it finds the Apple TV and synchronizes it, ensuring that all the latest music and videos are available.
Unless it doesn’t.
This morning, I got a popup message that said (I’m paraphrasing here), “I couldn’t contact the iTunes store to authorize your stuff, so I’m just going to delete it all, ok?”
And, just like that, 160GB of “stuff” blinked out of existence. Ok, not all of it. Presumably, it keeps the DRM-free music and all my home movies (also DRM-free), but at least 140G of the 160G is gone.
So I clicked the “Sync” button; this time, it was happy, got the authorization, and then started the laborious process of copying all my stuff back to the Apple TV.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to copy 140G off stuff over a WiFi network? More time than I have between now and when I need to go to work.
Hey, Apple, instead of just casually deleting everything on the Apple TV, why not just disable it until you can authorize it?
