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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
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).
mons
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By andrey987 24 May 2021 - 15:16 PM UTC 

:-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))

 

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’

 

If you're having to create the Sports Interactive folder, chances are that you're in the wrong place. The folder is created by the game and is where your saved games, tactics, filters etc are saved.

andrey987
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By mons 24 May 2021 - 15:26 PM UTC 

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’

 

If you're having to create the Sports Interactive folder, chances are that you're in the wrong place. The folder is created by the game and is where your saved games, tactics, filters etc are saved.

 

yeeeeeessss! It works!!!

I was lookin' for “library” in english and i found it - that was wrong way

but when i opened “library” in language of my mac - i found a lot of files, and “sports interactive” was one of them. - right way

Thank you!!!! i'm so happy))))))

 

mons
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By andrey987 24 May 2021 - 15:41 PM UTC 

yeeeeeessss! It works!!!

I was lookin' for “library” in english and i found it - that was wrong way

but when i opened “library” in language of my mac - i found a lot of files, and “sports interactive” was one of them. - right way

Thank you!!!! i'm so happy))))))

 

That's why there are installation instructions 😉 Happy to hear that 👍

o0Pascal0o
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mons
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By o0Pascal0o 27 May 2021 - 12:13 PM UTC 

Do the cut-out faces: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces work with FM2019, too? thx!

 

They work all the way back to FM08, actually 😉

o0Pascal0o
3 years ago
1 year ago
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Thank you mons. Do you need all changes-files? Or just the last one(sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.09_changes.rar ), if you have sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00.rar ?

mons
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By o0Pascal0o 27 May 2021 - 16:19 PM UTC 

Thank you mons. Do you need all changes-files? Or just the last one(sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.09_changes.rar ), if you have sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00.rar ?

 

You'll need all the change files installed in chronological order.

naqui
2 years ago
2 years ago
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It's my first time extracting file this big. I just recently downloaded the megapack and it says right now estimated time left is over 10 hours. Is that a normal occurrence? Also I download all 19 parts and put them in one folder and I extract only the first part since the guide says so and the rest of 18 parts will be extracted automatically since they are in the same folder. Is my step correct?

mons
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By naqui 29 May 2021 - 05:12 AM UTC 

It's my first time extracting file this big. I just recently downloaded the megapack and it says right now estimated time left is over 10 hours. Is that a normal occurrence? Also I download all 19 parts and put them in one folder and I extract only the first part since the guide says so and the rest of 18 parts will be extracted automatically since they are in the same folder. Is my step correct?

 

Sometimes with such a big file the computer gets the calculation of extraction time wrong and it speeds up after a while. Be prepared for it to take a fair while, however. It may take around an hour or slightly less with all conditions being ideal, so close any running programs and Chrome tabs for example.

 

If you can't find the time to leave your PC unused to extract the files, perhaps it might be worth letting it extract overnight, making sure there aren't any power settings which send the system to sleep if inactive after a period of time.

 

As for your second query, that is indeed correct 👍

AMG
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13.07 is not downloading for me

mons
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By AMG 29 May 2021 - 13:51 PM UTC 

13.07 is not downloading for me

 

Working fine for me so it might be an issue at your end.

 

Try to download it using Google Chrome in incognito mode, see if that works for you.

AMG
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By mons 29 May 2021 - 13:53 PM UTC 

Working fine for me so it might be an issue at your end.

 

Try to download it using Google Chrome in incognito mode, see if that works for you.

 

it downloads very slowly until 60mb and then stops. No issue with other files that download smooth in almost 20 seconds. I am on chrome i tried incognito mode as well. 

mons
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By AMG 29 May 2021 - 14:24 PM UTC 

it downloads very slowly until 60mb and then stops. No issue with other files that download smooth in almost 20 seconds.

 

I've got an internet connection which is usually dreadful, and it downloads 60mbs of 13.07 in seconds.

 

Is the scenario you describe when using Chrome in incognito mode? If yes, you should be able to resume interrupted downloads.

zmasmith12
9 years ago
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Hi All,

 

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. 

 

I have a question. 
 

Is it possible to remove all the headshots in Football Manager 21 Touch? Even the licensed headshots. 

 

I know it's a weird question but I'd prefer no headshots at all. Rather than some headshots and no blanks. 

 

Example attached is the blank I'm referring to.

 

Let me if this is possible and how to go about doing it. 

 

Thanks!

mons
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By zmasmith12 31 May 2021 - 10:25 AM UTC 

Hi All,

 

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. 

 

I have a question. 
 

Is it possible to remove all the headshots in Football Manager 21 Touch? Even the licensed headshots. 

 

I know it's a weird question but I'd prefer no headshots at all. Rather than some headshots and no blanks. 

 

Example attached is the blank I'm referring to.

 

Let me if this is possible and how to go about doing it. 

 

Thanks!

 

Read this.

test354424
2 years ago
2 months ago
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I downloaded and (I think) installed this face pack for FM20. Does anyone know if it's supposed to give new newgens that enter the game after that point one of those photos, or if it's supposed to update existing newgens on my team as well? If it's the former, is there a way to manually update the pictures for some players?

 

Tried with both the TCS skin and the default skin. My folder structure is:

 

"Football Manager 20" 

  > graphics

    > sortitoutsi

      > faces

         > (all the face images)

      > iconfaces

 

 

EDIT: I guess this pack doesn't apply for newgens. I got Zealand's NewGAN pack to work for that though.

mons
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By test354424 01 June 2021 - 16:05 PM UTC 

I downloaded and (I think) installed this face pack for FM20. Does anyone know if it's supposed to give new newgens that enter the game after that point one of those photos, or if it's supposed to update existing newgens on my team as well? If it's the former, is there a way to manually update the pictures for some players?

 

Tried with both the TCS skin and the default skin. My folder structure is:

 

"Football Manager 20" 

  > graphics

    > sortitoutsi

      > faces

         > (all the face images)

      > iconfaces

 

 

EDIT: I guess this pack doesn't apply for newgens. I got Zealand's NewGAN pack to work for that though.

 

This file displays photos for real-life players, not sure where you got the impression it also includes images for newgens.

CaallateMierdaa
4 years ago
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anyone knows why don't show the faces of ajax staff? Thanks

mons
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By CaallateMierdaa 04 June 2021 - 17:27 PM UTC 

anyone knows why don't show the faces of ajax staff? Thanks

 

Read this.

zmasmith12
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By mons 01 June 2021 - 08:12 AM UTC 

Read this.

 

Thanks for the link mons, doesn't quite work though. I was able to create a graphics folder and add the blank headshots. But the licensed headshots are still in the game, and I can't see in the Resource Archiver where to extract them.

mons
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By zmasmith12 05 June 2021 - 13:39 PM UTC 

Thanks for the link mons, doesn't quite work though. I was able to create a graphics folder and add the blank headshots. But the licensed headshots are still in the game, and I can't see in the Resource Archiver where to extract them.

 

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying here, and you shouldn't need to use the Resource Archiver at all.

WestCold
3 years ago
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From which site you take the images to make the facepack?

krissmed
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By WestCold 07 June 2021 - 21:43 PM UTC 

From which site you take the images to make the facepack?

 

There's a fairly comprehensive list here with websites where you can find HQ sources. It's a bit outdated by now though.

 

You can also follow baja's guide on how to find good sources for specific people here.

WestCold
3 years ago
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By krissmed 07 June 2021 - 22:22 PM UTC 

There's a fairly comprehensive list here with websites where you can find HQ sources. It's a bit outdated by now though.

 

You can also follow baja's guide on how to find good sources for specific people here.

 

Thank you.

It's possible take the face from Getty?

mons
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By WestCold 08 June 2021 - 05:35 AM UTC 

Thank you.

It's possible take the face from Getty?

 

It makes no difference to us where the images come from as long as they're reasonably recent and of a good quality. If the person already has a cut in the megapack, make sure that the image requested is of a superior quality. There's little point in making a request for a person who already has a recent and high-quality cut in the megapack; we have a limited amount of cutters and it is not a good use of their time to do so.

MathiasKP
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is there any place to actually request new Cut-Outs without people throwing a tantrum at you?

 

mons
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By MathiasKP 12 June 2021 - 12:42 PM UTC 

is there any place to actually request new Cut-Outs without people throwing a tantrum at you?

 

We've only got a forum to cut reasonable requests, I'm afraid, where requesters provide new or improvement images and our cutters take them on, but only if they're of sufficient quality because it's a waste of time otherwise.

Albannach
3 years ago
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Is the latest 13.10 pack compatible with FM2020? Thanks in advance.

mons
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By Albannach 12 June 2021 - 23:27 PM UTC 

Is the latest 13.10 pack compatible with FM2020? Thanks in advance.

 

Yes it is 👍

billyblenx
3 years ago
4 months ago
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Good Ebening all! I'm a bit of an old school and I'm still digging FM11. I am very much interested in downloading the cut-out megapack version 3.00 which I believe is where it all started but the mirrors doesn't exist anymore. How can I download them? If I understood correctly all the versions 3.xx available are based on FM11 (judging by their release dates) so I'm not only keen to download the 3.00 one but all of the 3.xx updates. Thanks in advance.

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