A friend in Malaysia has asked for bulk downloading of all my Dhamma Talks on this website (both audio and video). You’d imagine this is an easy thing to grant, but it’s actually not that easy. There’s about 26GB worth of files: ~170 videos, ~130 audio files.

After several hours of installing Copyparty, I now have this remote access set up and available (however, it’s password protected, to protect this service from bots who will abuse it).

Copyparty can do rapid downloading of all the files in a shared folder. To download all files in a folder, right-click one of the files, and a context menu pops out. Left-click “select all”. All filenames turn pink. Here’s a screenshot:

At the bottom-right of the screen, some new controls appeared. Hover your mouse pointer over “dl”. A “tooltip” is shown, saying “download selection as separate files”. If you go ahead and left-click “dl”, the (pink) selected files will all start downloading in rapid succession, to your laptop’s default download folder (of your web browser)!

In the lower left of this screenshot, you can see that all the pink files were summarized as being 2.13GB worth, and there were 133 files selected.

If you’d like those as one big .zip file instead, left-click “zip” (not “dl”). Note: Copyparty does some magic where it zips as it goes - no temp files created first. A big zip file (probably compression level zero - no compression) just starts blasting at you with no delay!

If you’re interested in access, let me know, and I can make available a bulk download for you. If you aren’t already a contact of mine (through Signal, my goto), you can contact me using one of the methods listed here.