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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.13 - Released on 01 Oct 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).
GaNgSta LoVe
11 years ago
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By mons 15 August 2024 - 08:32 AM UTC 

Open the file config.xml contained within the faces folder, and add the below line within all the other similar ones:

 

<record from="43424738" to="graphics/pictures/person/43424738/portrait"/>

 

it worked, thank you, good work

 

JakubHaribo
2 years ago
2 weeks ago
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can i download megapack for fm20 only?? or i need to download every single update?

mons
18 years ago
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By JakubHaribo 15 August 2024 - 17:26 PM UTC 

can i download megapack for fm20 only?? or i need to download every single update?

 

There's a link at the top of the page for the FM20 and FM21 torrent, if they're still available.

JakubHaribo
2 years ago
2 weeks ago
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By mons 15 August 2024 - 17:40 PM UTC 

There's a link at the top of the page for the FM20 and FM21 torrent, if they're still available.

 

cant see it or im blind haha

mons
18 years ago
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By JakubHaribo 15 August 2024 - 17:49 PM UTC 

cant see it or im blind haha

 

You're not, it's not actually there, sorry!

 

It's point 12 on the first post, actually.

Beppe Mizzi Buontempo
1 month ago
1 month ago
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I downloaded the faces and icon faces folder and put it in the graphics folder, but when I try to load on FM, the game is just stuck on loading 

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By Beppe Mizzi Buontempo 01 September 2024 - 10:30 AM UTC 

I downloaded the faces and icon faces folder and put it in the graphics folder, but when I try to load on FM, the game is just stuck on loading 

 

Which graphics folder did you place it in? Can we have a screenshot?

 

Also, how long has it been stuck on loading?

Beppe Mizzi Buontempo
1 month ago
1 month ago
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By mons 01 September 2024 - 10:36 AM UTC 

Which graphics folder did you place it in? Can we have a screenshot?

 

Also, how long has it been stuck on loading?

 

FYI I use a Mac 

It stays on loading the entire time 

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
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By Beppe Mizzi Buontempo 01 September 2024 - 11:53 AM UTC 

FYI I use a Mac 

It stays on loading the entire time 

 

That doesn't seem to be the right path. This is where it should go:

 

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.

Beppe Mizzi Buontempo
1 month ago
1 month ago
3
Premium
By mons 01 September 2024 - 11:57 AM UTC 

That doesn't seem to be the right path. This is where it should go:

 

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.

 

Thanks so much!

Rafa Alhilal
1 month ago
1 month ago
3

can someone help me, torent link is eror.

 

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium

Hello,
I downloaded the complete pack of Cut Out Player Faces Megapack on a macbook air.
I followed all the steps in the installation instructions, but compared to the same file placed on a windows, there are faces that do not appear at all (ex in screenshots attachement). So it's not as if I'm missing all of them or some of them reported through forums such as staff ajax.
Has anyone encountered this problem?? Am I wrong somewhere?

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By ionas81 08 September 2024 - 14:44 PM UTC 

Hello,
I downloaded the complete pack of Cut Out Player Faces Megapack on a macbook air.
I followed all the steps in the installation instructions, but compared to the same file placed on a windows, there are faces that do not appear at all (ex in screenshots attachement). So it's not as if I'm missing all of them or some of them reported through forums such as staff ajax.
Has anyone encountered this problem?? Am I wrong somewhere?

 

When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder.

 

Can you follow the steps in this post, but for Martinez's UID - 14110660?

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By Rafa Alhilal 08 September 2024 - 13:14 PM UTC 

can someone help me, torent link is eror.

 

Come on man, a bit more info would help. What error? Post screenshots if need be.

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium
By mons 08 September 2024 - 14:49 PM UTC 

When you have a blank space instead of a cut-out, it means there is a config file pointing to a folder in which an image with that UID is not present. This generally happens when an update pack is installed in a separate folder and not part of the overall faces folder.

 

Can you follow the steps in this post, but for Martinez's UID - 14110660?

 

Hello,
I'm starting to see the problem. I don't know why there are files that have zero bytes, including the one we were talking about (14110660)

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By ionas81 08 September 2024 - 18:24 PM UTC 

Hello,
I'm starting to see the problem. I don't know why there are files that have zero bytes, including the one we were talking about (14110660)

 

Frankly, as a premium member, it's easiest to just delete everything and downloading the whole update pack from scratch.

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium

That's exactly what I'm doing at the moment.  😀

Thanks for the help

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium
By mons 08 September 2024 - 18:40 PM UTC 

Frankly, as a premium member, it's easiest to just delete everything and downloading the whole update pack from scratch.

Hello,

Unfortunately, after re-downloading the archive and unzipping it, I have the same problems, apparently with the same files
As steps: I downloaded, then I copied the archive where needed and unzipped it with a-zipper
Am i wrong somewhere?

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By ionas81 09 September 2024 - 09:18 AM UTC 

Hello,

Unfortunately, after re-downloading the archive and unzipping it, I have the same problems, apparently with the same files
As steps: I downloaded, then I copied the archive where needed and unzipped it with a-zipper
Am i wrong somewhere?

 

Delete your faces folder (but not the downloaded compressed file).

 

Download WinRar and use it to extract the download.

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium
By mons 09 September 2024 - 09:32 AM UTC 

Delete your faces folder (but not the downloaded compressed file).

 

Download WinRar and use it to extract the download.

 

OK
I will try this
I'm new to MacBook and I didn't know which unzip to use

Rafa Alhilal
1 month ago
1 month ago
3
By mons 08 September 2024 - 15:33 PM UTC 

Come on man, a bit more info would help. What error? Post screenshots if need be.

Like this

i click link torent and this thing hapened, i mean torent link to download facepack
Rafa Alhilal
1 month ago
1 month ago
3
By mons 08 September 2024 - 15:33 PM UTC 

Come on man, a bit more info would help. What error? Post screenshots if need be.

 

cut put player megha pacck torent

Rod Fuser
6 months ago
1 month ago
7

Hi guys, I reinstalled FM15 and tried to put the cutout faces (2024 megapack edition) but it doesn't work properly...

 

Do you have an idea where the problem is? (and can it be solved?)

 

IDs are similar and code ligns in the config.xml too (I checked older config files). The game seems to recognize the faces but the interface is broken.

Maybe the sizes of the faces?

 

Thanks !

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By Rafa Alhilal 09 September 2024 - 09:57 AM UTC 

cut put player megha pacck torent

 

Download uTorrent to be able to download the megapack through it. I have no idea what app you're using instead or what error message was displayed because you cropped the important info out of the screenshot you uploaded 😕

 

 

 

By Rod Fuser 09 September 2024 - 11:48 AM UTC 

Hi guys, I reinstalled FM15 and tried to put the cutout faces (2024 megapack edition) but it doesn't work properly...

 

Do you have an idea where the problem is? (and can it be solved?)

 

IDs are similar and code ligns in the config.xml too (I checked older config files). The game seems to recognize the faces but the interface is broken.

Maybe the sizes of the faces?

 

Thanks !

 

I've moved your thread to here, because there is an explanation and a potential solution for this known issue in point 12 of the first post.

Rod Fuser
6 months ago
1 month ago
7

Thanks @mons but I've installed it properly. 

 

I have the same problem with my SS kits, imported in game but not ‘good looking’ whereas in the same time the TCM logos work perfectly… 

 

I don't understand. 

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By Rod Fuser 09 September 2024 - 18:09 PM UTC 

Thanks @mons but I've installed it properly. 

 

I have the same problem with my SS kits, imported in game but not ‘good looking’ whereas in the same time the TCM logos work perfectly… 

 

I don't understand. 

 

It's not an issue with how you've installed it, but simply that the megapack as downloaded now will not work if used on versions prior to FM22, unless you manage to download one of the torrent files linked to in that particular FAQ.

ionas81
15 years ago
1 month ago
6
Premium
By mons 09 September 2024 - 09:32 AM UTC 

Delete your faces folder (but not the downloaded compressed file).

 

Download WinRar and use it to extract the download.

 

it's ok now
thanks for the help

Rod Fuser
6 months ago
1 month ago
7
By mons 09 September 2024 - 18:24 PM UTC 

It's not an issue with how you've installed it, but simply that the megapack as downloaded now will not work if used on versions prior to FM22, unless you manage to download one of the torrent files linked to in that particular FAQ.

 

Got it thanks. I'll try the FM21 pack tomorrow if there're still active seeds. 

Bamster365
1 year ago
1 week ago
2

Hello


I have downloaded all 13 separate files and extracted them into the graphics folder. There I now have 13 different folders with part 1, part 2 and so on. Where do I have to place the config file so that all faces from the 13 folders are displayed? 

 

Thanks

mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
90,117
By Bamster365 10 September 2024 - 08:02 AM UTC 

Hello


I have downloaded all 13 separate files and extracted them into the graphics folder. There I now have 13 different folders with part 1, part 2 and so on. Where do I have to place the config file so that all faces from the 13 folders are displayed? 

 

Thanks

 

Every cut should be in a single folder, together with the config file.

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