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@charic did the software update and fixed it

I love them. On my super bright basses (Smith and Vigier) they sound fantastic as they bring a bit of warmth. I’ve had a set on the Vigier for more than two years now. I don’t sweat much and normal strings would last a few months but it’s nice knowing the elixirs stay fresh. Also I like the company - they’re really friendly and have sponsored this site for several years now.

Prompted by this thread I have found a local company that can fit a 512GB SSD to my 2012 model for £200 including a clone of all my data across onto the new drive. They're collecting this afternoon. I have almost nothing on my hard drive so 512bg is more than enough - I just looked and I've got 919.91 GB of 1TB available!

To be fair cleanmymac mainly gets rid of junk and helps you carry out some simple performance tweaks but it’s not going to make a huge speed difference unless you get your files structured and sorted. Like I say it’s best to offload as much as you can to iCloud even if you have to pay for some storage (I think I pay £2 a month?) and get rid of anything you don’t need. Whether that means you move things you want to a flash drive then do a compete refresh or not depends on the volume of stuff I guess. If you were quite tidy and regimented from the off then it’s quite painless. In terms of iCloud storage if you don’t already know you can backup your entire library folder without needing to drag and drop anything to another system or service. So all your files appear on your OS just as they would normally but they aren’t actually in your computer if you don’t want. You can manually purge folders/docs to the cloud or just let it happen automatically and recently used docs will be downloaded to your computer too for easy access but it all works seamlessly and across all devices. I’ve been an advocate for cloud computing for a long time now. There’s almost nothing actually physically stored on my computers, I could happily wipe it all tomorrow and carry on where I left off just by signing back in on a new machine.

They take the screen off to access the drive. Not too difficult to do yourself but best if they do it! Now buy some iCloud storage and offload those files.

Good job it’s not her computer then!

Two quick tips. Archive as much mail as you can. And then offload as many files as you can to iCloud (use the ‘remove download’ option on folders). You should them use CleanmymacX which isn’t free but the good ones aren’t. It’s a good system. Turn off the real time malware protection and the taskbar plugin monitor. My home iMac is a 2012 and keeping it clean it works pretty well for the basic things I use it for. I don’t know why anyone would expect a 2011 model to be obsolete. One thing that’ll make a massive difference is to upgrade the disk to SSD then it’ll be a lot quicker.

Nope

Updated the thread title as not to besmirch BC (not that it was your intention I'm sure)

We looked into it and thought whilst the person messaging didn’t seem very nice we thought probably best for both parties to just not make a deal with each other. We didn’t see anything that required a warning.

Just use your Smith.

Probably a Talkbasser being ironic

Thanks. Most places I’ve tried who are well priced don’t drop ship. I definitely don’t want the stock at my house!

Complete bass-tard

All basses are Fender copies 🤠

Hm I don’t know how a broken truss rod would lead to a twist.. sounds like the neck is just made badly. I think a broken truss rod would mean extreme levels of relief but not necessarily a twist. Might be wrong but normally I’ve seen twists because of improper storage or the wood used has a flaw so it bends over time. I mean your truss rod sounds knackered anyway but I don’t know if it will fix the twist but then maybe it’s not that severe.

‘Closet’ classic! There were some rickenbacker designs at one stage. They’ll be where the big money lies!

We used to have some Polo shirts and we did a limited run of T shirts too - however the place that did the embroidery and drop shipping went bust. I looked for another company that could make and ship for a reasonable cost but never found anywhere. Add to that the fact that some went missing which I had to chase, people didn't always like the fit, people preferred a different logo etc etc... all quite a mission at the end of the day. There was zero profit, too. If you've got a permanent marker and a plain T shirt then help yourself, you have my permission

Hit the 'Report' button in the message and I'll help.

Guessing you’re using a five string? I can recommend Elixir strings - they could be the perfect solution for you. They do a .45-.130 set but also sell single .125 strings. They aren’t cheap but they last forever. I’ve got sets over a year old!

And a string!

As long as it’s sent with insurance and I pay with PayPal there’s no risk my end. Some came from a shop and others from private sellers. To be honest I have found that good international insured shipping is better then domestic shipping quite often!

We don’t know anything yet. In the long term it could all be rather positive.

I’ve edited mine too. Those are just the ones I have now - I’ve bought from Germany, Spain, Portugal, Canada, USA, Japan... think that’s all 🤔