Well I got a little farther with this and have not totally given up. It does record to my Sandisk 64 gig card after all.
Accessing the data and pulling it down off the card is where I am struggling now.
1. From the Playback tab, I can see the recordings in my timeline at the bottom of the window and I can play them from there.
2. If I highlight a day on the calendar and hit 'search', it does go to an area with activity on the timeline for the day chosen (I had no idea this was working originally because the timeline is so small but it is).
Here are the challenges:
1. If I click on the icon for 'Download Recordings' it will bring me to a search tool and I can do a search on a day and bring up a bunch of recordings and select the one I want to pull down.
2. If I click download they all say they are successfully downloaded.
3. However, what determines where the files are downloaded to?
I see there are several options under the local configuration tab for things like recording under Live View,etc Those were all originally defaulted to a c:users/username/web type path but I could never actually find that folder if I tried to browse to it. So I changed it to another path and nothing seems to go there either. So far I have had ONE file pull down successfully and that was using Firefox but then I couldn't repeat it again (??).
Really frustrating.
Final question - If this was actually working properly for me, would this work from anywhere as long as I was logged into the camera? Meaning, could I do that search, select files, and download them to whatever PC I am on even if I am just accessing it out over the internet (
DDNS, port forwarding,etc) and pull the files down to the PC I am on to access the camera remotely? (ie camera is at a cabin and I am at home. need to pull down to home computer)