Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same.  You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:


Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders. 

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary

 

Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?

You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.

 


4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?

If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.

If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.

If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

This is what the MP folder should look like:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’

Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.

Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.

These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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By mons 15 May 2021 - 16:20 PM UTC 

Very strange indeed. Try giving it a go tomorrow, maybe there's something wrong just today. I'm tagging the site owner and administrator @Footygamer so that he can take a look when he's back online 👍

 

still no luck, have you any idea what's wrong?

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By Chayanboy01 15 May 2021 - 10:43 AM UTC 

I used chrome this time, but im not abel to resume the download, it stops after 855mb every time.

 

Just to check, you do have more than 855mb free on the hard drive you are trying to download to?

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By Side Splitting Pass 16 May 2021 - 21:41 PM UTC 

Just to check, you do have more than 855mb free on the hard drive you are trying to download to?

 

Yepp i have over 400Gb of storage on my hard drive left, I will try again 

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By Side Splitting Pass 16 May 2021 - 21:41 PM UTC 

Just to check, you do have more than 855mb free on the hard drive you are trying to download to?

 

I also tried to download the file on my sons Mac, same problem there.

I'm about to give up

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By Chayanboy01 17 May 2021 - 13:49 PM UTC 

I also tried to download the file on my sons Mac, same problem there.

I'm about to give up

 

I just tried it myself on a not particularly good internet connection and got past the 1GB without any issues at all. It might well have something to do with your internet connection and/or any extensions to your browser.

 

To get past the last issue, I've just realised I didn't suggest trying to download it using Google Chrone in incognito mode (i.e. with all extensions automatically disabled). See if that works.

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By mons 17 May 2021 - 14:58 PM UTC 

I just tried it myself on a not particularly good internet connection and got past the 1GB without any issues at all. It might well have something to do with your internet connection and/or any extensions to your browser.

 

To get past the last issue, I've just realised I didn't suggest trying to download it using Google Chrone in incognito mode (i.e. with all extensions automatically disabled). See if that works.

 

I'm positive that my internet connection isn't the problem, it has to be some other issue.

I did download the file before I was a member but the file was damaged and I couldn't unzip the file.

 

This text is above the download file:

"It looks like you've already downloaded this megapack before, in which case you might prefer to download one (or more) of the small update packs below.

But you can still download the bigger complete pack if you wish"

 

Strange considering that il never succeeded.

Is there some other way for me to get hold of the file?

 

I tried one last time via Firefox same problem and I'm using Nord vpn so I'm incognito all the time. 

 

 

 

 

 

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By Chayanboy01 17 May 2021 - 15:31 PM UTC 

I'm positive that my internet connection isn't the problem, it has to be some other issue.

I did download the file before I was a member but the file was damaged and I couldn't unzip the file.

 

This text is above the download file:

"It looks like you've already downloaded this megapack before, in which case you might prefer to download one (or more) of the small update packs below.

But you can still download the bigger complete pack if you wish"

 

Strange considering that il never succeeded.

Is there some other way for me to get hold of the file?

 

I tried one last time via Firefox same problem and I'm using Nord vpn so I'm incognito all the time. 

 

At this stage, I'm genuinely out of options for suggestions on how you can get it 😢 If the download's working for me and others, but not for you, then the logic follows that it's something at your end which is stopping it from working for you as intended. I suggested the internet connection because it's the most likely solution.

 

Do I remember right that you said you've tried download managers and they don't work either?

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By mons 17 May 2021 - 17:12 PM UTC 

At this stage, I'm genuinely out of options for suggestions on how you can get it 😢 If the download's working for me and others, but not for you, then the logic follows that it's something at your end which is stopping it from working for you as intended. I suggested the internet connection because it's the most likely solution.

 

Do I remember right that you said you've tried download managers and they don't work either?

 

Ok. thanks for your support

I downloaded download manager for chrome and activated it in the toolbar, I think that I did it right?

 

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By Chayanboy01 18 May 2021 - 10:23 AM UTC 

Ok. thanks for your support

I downloaded download manager for chrome and activated it in the toolbar, I think that I did it right?

 

I would imagine so, but I can't really advise on how to install third-party applications…

Letzelter
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Hello,

 

First, sorry if my english is bad, I'm french.

 

I need help with this megapack: When I was playing FM 2020, this megapack was working nice. But I buy FM 2021, install the pack and it doesn't work. Some faces are in game, other not, with no reason. Even worst, on FM 2020, if I load my old game, it's work, but if I create new game, it's doesn't work. I'm on steam and Windows 10.

 

2 exemples: Karim Benzema and Didier Deschamps.

 

  • Karim Benzema's face work in FM 2020 et FM 2021:

 

FM2021: 

 

FM 2020 new game:

 

 

Graphic pack: 

 

 

 

  • Didier Deschamps's face doesn't work in FM 2021 and FM 2020 new game, but work in FM 2020 old game:

 

FM 2021: 

 

FM 2020 new game:

 

FM 2020 old game: 

 

FM2020 old game if I delete megapack: 

 

Graphic pack: 

 

Config.xml: 

 

 

 

I don't understand why it's work in a old game, but not in new game and not in FM 2021.

 

I try:

 

  • Uninstall and install FM 2020 and FM 2020
  • Uninstall and install steam
  • Restart Windows 10
  • Delete all other graphics
  • Delete all databases and others mods
  • New download megapack 
  • Check config.xml and folders
  • Replace Didier Deschamps and Karim Benzema's faces by other faces
  • Create new game
  • Change folder's location

 

After each try, I clear cache and reload skin.

 

Some screens:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't understand where the error is. 

 

Please, can you help me ?

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@Letzelter, for licensing reasons, if you view a person from the French national team page, then their cut-out will not display.

 

You will need to download this file for FM21 (and its equivalent for FM20 - use the search function to find it) and it will fix this issue (and many others) in your existing save game.

Letzelter
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@mons Thank you very much, I have this mod, but I forgot update this after new FM 2021 update 2140, now it's work !

 

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By Dmitri-K 21 May 2021 - 08:41 AM UTC 

This photo has unnormously big size (2,6 MB):

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2021/person/59115308/sahin-zekiyev

 

I've uploaded it with a more reasonable size 👍

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evening I recently downloaded the facepack but it comes up with There is no application set to open the document and then struggling to get it to work all together.

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 19:51 PM UTC 

evening I recently downloaded the facepack but it comes up with There is no application set to open the document and then struggling to get it to work all together.

 

Download Winrar for Mac or the Unarchiver or a similar program to extract the file you've downloaded.

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I have done this which has now got all the faces now I just can not find how to extract them in to fm21 which I have downloaded from steam

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 20:21 PM UTC 

I have done this which has now got all the faces now I just can not find how to extract them in to fm21 which I have downloaded from steam

 

What you've typed doesn't make a lot of sense, sorry. Can you upload a screenshot of what you've got right now?

 

There is a Word document with installation instructions, at what stage are you?

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By mons 23 May 2021 - 20:24 PM UTC 

What you've typed doesn't make a lot of sense, sorry. Can you upload a screenshot of what you've got right now?

 

There is a Word document with installation instructions, at what stage are you?

 

sorry. 

 

so I have now downloaded the unarchiver which has now made it possible to access all the cut outs off staff and players.

 

however now I can not find the graphic part to stick this file in

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 20:30 PM UTC 

sorry. 

 

so I have now downloaded the unarchiver which has now made it possible to access all the cut outs off staff and players.

 

however now I can not find the graphic part to stick this file in

 

Are you even reading what I'm posting?

 

Read the installation instructions and post screenshots if that doesn't work.

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 20:38 PM UTC 

This the stage I am at

 

Where? Nothing's showing 😕

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 20:38 PM UTC 

This the stage I am at

 

Showing now. You need to navigate to the folder displayed in the installation instructions.

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 20:41 PM UTC 

I have just attached the images as they did load at first

 

It's useless asking for help if you aren't bothering to follow the installation instructions. You need to navigate to the folder displayed in the installation instructions:

 

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 2021’

 

That's where I need to see a screenshot of, otherwise I can't really help.

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By mons 23 May 2021 - 20:52 PM UTC 

I

 

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 2021’

 

That's where I need to see a screenshot of, otherwise I can't really help.

 

sorry for all the inconvenience caused but after many hours of YouTube videos and working out how to use a MacBook I have finally got to this stage.

 

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By Salopian_Ryan 23 May 2021 - 23:02 PM UTC 

sorry for all the inconvenience caused but after many hours of YouTube videos and working out how to use a MacBook I have finally got to this stage.

 

It's really rather straight-forward. All you need is in my previous post.

 

From the screenshot you posted, it's impossible to tell if this is the folder in your screenshot: Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive. If it isn't, then that's where you graphics folder needs to go. 

 

What's inside the sortitoutsi folder? You should have a faces folder and an iconfaces folder there, both of which should contain 300k+ images and a file named config.xml.

andrey987
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i've done everything, but still doesn't work((

macbook air m1

copy in default folder - nope

copy in documents - nope

copy in library - nope (((

mons
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By andrey987 24 May 2021 - 14:06 PM UTC 

i've done everything, but still doesn't work((

macbook air m1

copy in default folder - nope

copy in documents - nope

copy in library - nope (((

 

You only seem to have logos in the graphics folder in your second screenshot - I'm not seeing the faces or iconfaces folder there? Bit difficult for the files to work if they're not in there 😕

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By mons 24 May 2021 - 15:01 PM UTC 

You only seem to have logos in the graphics folder in your second screenshot - I'm not seeing the faces or iconfaces folder there? Bit difficult for the files to work if they're not in there 😕

:-D

i've tried only for logos, and i think that with faces will be the same problem. i cant find folder where to put downloaded files.

may be there is some more setting to be changed (exept cathing and reload)

maybe i use wrong folder. Folder “Sports Interactive” was created by me.

This is the only comment folder where somebody speak about installing problems on mac that i can find.

If i need to download faces pack to discuss further i will do it))

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