Sorry for the computer woes, DX.

I was having trouble with my main computer for a bit in that it would take 3-4 attempts to boot to finally boot up. It turned out to be bad memory. A bit of new memory and everything is good again. My BILs computer (which I built) also was having an issue powering up and that turned out to be a bad plug on a power strip.

Mac question. My Mac is starting to suggest updating to High Sierra, but I have heard that if your drive is encrypted it can be a very long upgrade? Anybody know for sure?

Is it a hard drive or an SSD?

SSD

Update on mine. Wasn't the power supply, so a replacement motherboard is arriving tomorrow. It's always tricky with motherboards. The machine is about four years old, so the MB is no longer available new. I could go with newer model, but then I would not only have to reinstall the OS, but also run the likely risk that the new board isn't compatible with Win 7 (or even Win 8 at this point), or even the CPU. So I ordered a refurbished board from Hong Kong. We'll see.

On the other machine, somehow the SSD forgot it was a system disk, and now I have to reinstall the OS. Not nearly as big a deal as on the main machine, because there are far fewer programs to reinstall. Should be a busy weekend.

Yeah, in all my years of building my own computers I think I've managed to only once upgrade a CPU without also replacing the motherboard and also usually the memory. It can be hard to change any of those without doing all three.

Using Linux is so nice for homemade machines. I hate the whole activation dance with Windows. My kids computers are homemade specials and have Windows and I sprung the extra few dollars to get retail rather than OEM Windows just to make activation smoother.

DX, on the second machine, what OS is it? I've had some luck with the startup repair option on Windows 10.

Daniel, it's Win 7. Already tried the repair option, which apparently made things worse, i.e., now the install disk doesn't recognize either of the SSDs in the machine as viable boot drives. <Shrug> I'll get it figured out eventually. I'm just a little out of practice.

If anyone is curious it took about 90 minutes for me to upgrade to High Sierra. Glad I didn't try it during the work day :)

Mom has an LG phone and she it's filled with pictures and she can't update it. I have backed up and deleted some of them but there are a lot where I can't.

The thumbnail won't load and I get Error 0x8000405 Unspecified Error. I can't figure out how to fix this.

Any suggestions? I know a short term solution is to get her a micro SD card and move the pictures there but she does want to save them and be able to access them from more than just her phone