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[rickeyjt]

I am connected at a friend's house remotely to my home pc mc server via port 82.  I am trying to copy some files to the local machine I am on.  Is this possible?  Do I need to open up port 82 on this machine?

Using the Move, Rename & Copy Files dialog and the files do not copy.  This works at home on my own network between pc's on my network.

[JimH]

I don't think you can copy specific files.  Investigate Library Sync for a full sync.

[rickeyjt]

I ran Library Sync but that did not seem to do anything.  I ran a library sync to try out between my home computers but I thought that was for the purpose of applying tag changes to files on one machine back to the server machine.

It would make the most sense to me if the Move, Rename & Copy Files dialog worked as expected.  It recreates the directory structure but does not copy the file.

[llafriel]

Go into options and create a new handheld device and point it's path to a local folder. Now you can sync files to this 'device' and MC will transfer them for you.

[rickeyjt]

In a way yes it transfers the files.  However, filepaths and filenames are not retained.  Even after trying to configure them in the handheld options.  Syncing throws them into a deeper path like C:\Temp\MyBasePath\C_\Users\rjt\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 14\Temp.  Additionally it appends some random four digit number to the filename like this - Keep It Going - 5160.mp3.  Because it treats it as a handheld then it creates a .m3u playlist and .mpl database, which would not matter as long as the names and paths are duplicated after the sync.

My intent is to retain existing paths and filenames.  I am looking into mapping a drive letter through a VPN.  But this is not an area I have experience with and have not successfully done a mapping yet.  Not sure if this the road to travel but a vpn sound helpful in a lot of other ways when I am out of my house and want to connect.