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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

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.

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All right, so I realize I do this every couple of years, but I'm looking at my backup system again. I've finally gotten to the point where I have stuff I'm ready to archive.

So, Drew, when you store your long term storage hard drives, how do you do it? Just pull the drives from the enclosure and stick them somewhere?

I think what I'm going to have going forward is:

-Laptop w/ 512g SSD -LaCie w/ 2T HD: working pro tools drive (this could be a 512 SSD if I were willing to pay more for less storage) -other external SSD: plugin & samples drive -Drobo 20T (10 usable) pseudo RAID: Time Machine, Plex media server, medium term storage (work files) -Other enclosure yet tbd, probably repurposed Synology? 4T each long term storage, copy to each of two drives, eventually remove and store as drives fill.

So I'd work the sessions from the LaCie, they'd automatically backup to the Drobo. Then I'd make two copies to the Synology when I was ready to archive the pro tools files.

Does that all seem workable?

I don't even pull drives from enclosures at this point. Smaller data files (Non audio and video stuff) is backed up locally to a time machine backup on each of my machines as well as being backed up to iCloud.

A/V files for projects are backed up short term to a local Time Machine drive in the studio, and then when projects are completed they are backed up to a network Drobo. As I need more space I swap larger drives into the Drobo.

Media files like the iTunes library and a few other things are stored on a local Drobo connected to the iMac on my desk in the office and then I also pay for iTunes Match so that they are backed up in the cloud.