High Sierra is on the HDD. Still on HFS+. Didn't upgrade automatically to AFS, which is what I wanted. The drive is 1TB WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0
Recovery Mode worked, unlike in Sierra. Slow but it worked. I got the spell checker back in Pages and was able to upgrade 1Password for free. I do all searching with EasyFind. I usually leave Spotlight indexing turned off. I realized many foreign fonts were dumped onto my drive, so tonight I deleted them. That may have been causing the slow down. I've used Kurt Lang's site
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html many times over the years.
Safari somehow got worse and more frustrating to use. I never use it. I've always used Firefox. Brave isn't bad, but I prefer Firefox. Well, I may have to use Safari to login to my router. I've had that problem before.