Hmmm...I believe recordings manually performed from the live view are sent to the local drive, unlike event recordings which are sent to a configured storage device.
That's how mine works, but yours could be different. Maybe a more experienced member could clarify?
Thanks. This downgrader worked on a Chinese DS-2CD2032-I, 03/2015.
Decal showed V5.2.8_141231, but original f/w was V5.2.5 build 141201.
Restored with this downgrader after unsuccessful attempt at f/w update to 5.3.0. MTD hack not required after using downgrader.