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?
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Gudanov - Nov 15, 2017 4:58:05 am PST #25120 of 25496
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Tom Scola - Nov 15, 2017 5:13:26 am PST #25121 of 25496
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Is it a hard drive or an SSD?
Gudanov - Nov 15, 2017 5:16:11 am PST #25122 of 25496
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SSD
DXMachina - Nov 15, 2017 5:43:28 am PST #25123 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
Gudanov - Nov 15, 2017 6:59:42 am PST #25124 of 25496
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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.
DCJensen - Nov 15, 2017 10:01:36 pm PST #25125 of 25496
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DX, on the second machine, what OS is it? I've had some luck with the startup repair option on Windows 10.
DXMachina - Nov 16, 2017 5:04:43 am PST #25126 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
Gudanov - Nov 27, 2017 7:12:01 am PST #25127 of 25496
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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 :)
askye - Dec 02, 2017 9:25:28 am PST #25128 of 25496
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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
Gudanov - Dec 03, 2017 2:05:14 am PST #25129 of 25496
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Probably not useful for anyone, but if you are installing Ubuntu I have a repo with scripts for installing Atom, basic Audio utilities, basic Graphics utilities, Google Chrome, Docker, Epson and Samsung printer drivers, Flash, Java, a LAMP server, Node, DVD and CD-ROM utilities, Spotify, Themes, and other stuff. The scripts are individual, not a one script to rule them all sort of thing.