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Editing my profile
Editing my profileEditing my profile from the front end.I mismatch passwords, CT gives me an error and resets all my fields!
Rushian General Questions 916
Editing my profileEditing my profile from the front end.I mismatch passwords, CT gives me an error and resets all my fields!
Rushian General Questions 916
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register birthday bug
register birthday bugtrying to regi as a new user admin has configured age checkno age input boxes are on the regi form. If I do fill in what's there, and hit (register) button, CT responds that I entered ...
Rushian General Questions 916
register birthday bugtrying to regi as a new user admin has configured age checkno age input boxes are on the regi form. If I do fill in what's there, and hit (register) button, CT responds that I entered ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Security code length
Security code lengthCan the security code be shortened? Ideally we could have a drop-down list to specify the length, or even just an input box where I can type in a number. I think 8 digits is just too lo ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Security code lengthCan the security code be shortened? Ideally we could have a drop-down list to specify the length, or even just an input box where I can type in a number. I think 8 digits is just too lo ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Check PAD Updates
Check PAD UpdatesHow does this work? I changed the version field to 3 and I expected it to update the value to the one in the PAD file (3.1.1) and it doesn't.
cosmin General Questions 916
Check PAD UpdatesHow does this work? I changed the version field to 3 and I expected it to update the value to the one in the PAD file (3.1.1) and it doesn't.
cosmin General Questions 916
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Importing
ImportingImporting 26 user accountsQuery: DELETE FROM esselbach_ct_users WHERE NOT(user_status'2') Error: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server v ...
cosmin General Questions 916
ImportingImporting 26 user accountsQuery: DELETE FROM esselbach_ct_users WHERE NOT(user_status'2') Error: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server v ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Site tagline
Site taglineWhen I installed CT, it asked for a site description, but it's not being shown in the browser title bar, like ST used to do...
Rushian General Questions 916
Site taglineWhen I installed CT, it asked for a site description, but it's not being shown in the browser title bar, like ST used to do...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Suggestion for users
Suggestion for usersActually that would be two of them: One, which should be pretty easy, is to display the registration date in the user list . Another, which I realize may take more work: notify when a u ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Suggestion for usersActually that would be two of them: One, which should be pretty easy, is to display the registration date in the user list . Another, which I realize may take more work: notify when a u ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Not sure if it's a bug
Not sure if it's a bugIs it me or the CAPTCHA is empty? http://www.file-portal.net/ess20/contentteller.php/files/details/rider.html
cosmin General Questions 916
Not sure if it's a bugIs it me or the CAPTCHA is empty? http://www.file-portal.net/ess20/contentteller.php/files/details/rider.html
cosmin General Questions 916
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Contentteller Pro 1.0 Preview 1 available
Contentteller Pro 1.0 Preview 1 availableThe first preview release of Contentteller Pro 1.0 (formerly known as Storyteller/Contentteller 2.0) is now available in the member area as free download for all re ...
Philipp General Questions 916
Contentteller Pro 1.0 Preview 1 availableThe first preview release of Contentteller Pro 1.0 (formerly known as Storyteller/Contentteller 2.0) is now available in the member area as free download for all re ...
Philipp General Questions 916
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PAD files which refuse to load
PAD files which refuse to loadI don't know if it's a bug, but some specific PAD files that load normally in the browser when added to CT take a long time to process and finally fail regardless of how many ...
cosmin General Questions 916
PAD files which refuse to loadI don't know if it's a bug, but some specific PAD files that load normally in the browser when added to CT take a long time to process and finally fail regardless of how many ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Time offsets
Time offsetsAre the time offsets working for anyone?My server is in GMT -5, as am I.I set the website time zone to be -5For my local user account profile, I also set TZ to be -5Anything I post (at least vi ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Time offsetsAre the time offsets working for anyone?My server is in GMT -5, as am I.I set the website time zone to be -5For my local user account profile, I also set TZ to be -5Anything I post (at least vi ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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admin login
admin loginWhen installing CT I used admin as the first user I then used the front end to create an account for Rushian (yay! SMTP works!) I activated the account via the email link I went to the admin con ...
Rushian General Questions 916
admin loginWhen installing CT I used admin as the first user I then used the front end to create an account for Rushian (yay! SMTP works!) I activated the account via the email link I went to the admin con ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Migrating to a new host?
Migrating to a new host?What are the problems I may encounter? My 1.8 based site is due for rebilling this month, and since I have a reseller acount I would like to transfer the domain over to the reseller ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Migrating to a new host?What are the problems I may encounter? My 1.8 based site is due for rebilling this month, and since I have a reseller acount I would like to transfer the domain over to the reseller ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Just one small reminder
Just one small reminderPhilipp, in case you add a debug mode to CT, please make sure it doesn't break the sitehttp://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=560Sometimes curiosity kills the cat.Thank you.
cosmin General Questions 916
Just one small reminderPhilipp, in case you add a debug mode to CT, please make sure it doesn't break the sitehttp://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=560Sometimes curiosity kills the cat.Thank you.
cosmin General Questions 916
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Commenting issues
Commenting issuesWhen posting a comment, a user name is required. Why is this so if I'm logged in?When you enter your (logged in) user name, CT responds with "that name is already taken".So you e ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Commenting issuesWhen posting a comment, a user name is required. Why is this so if I'm logged in?When you enter your (logged in) user name, CT responds with "that name is already taken".So you e ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Preview 1 Bugs
Preview 1 BugsNews import can't handle ISO-8859-2 encoding, characters specific to that encoding aresimply removed and replaced with html line breaks <br />. I'm assuming it goes for the rest of the ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Preview 1 BugsNews import can't handle ISO-8859-2 encoding, characters specific to that encoding aresimply removed and replaced with html line breaks <br />. I'm assuming it goes for the rest of the ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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adsense and adbrite code
adsense and adbrite codeI am not that good at php but I need to add adbrite and adsense code I know how to do include comands where would I do this command to have adsense or adbrite code banners at the he ...
JuiceMonkey General Questions 916
adsense and adbrite codeI am not that good at php but I need to add adbrite and adsense code I know how to do include comands where would I do this command to have adsense or adbrite code banners at the he ...
JuiceMonkey General Questions 916
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Block bugs
Block bugsI have some more issues with CT2 test 1 release 3 (lol, maybe time to go to an easier version scheme..);) In any case, I enabled the Themes block, and now, after I disable it (shown in the list w ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Block bugsI have some more issues with CT2 test 1 release 3 (lol, maybe time to go to an easier version scheme..);) In any case, I enabled the Themes block, and now, after I disable it (shown in the list w ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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single quotes
single quotesContentteller Pro 2.0.0 Test 1 release 4Post a comment with 'single quotes' somewhere in the body Save it it looks fine now edit the comment and the single quotes have ain front of them ex. 's ...
Rushian General Questions 916
single quotesContentteller Pro 2.0.0 Test 1 release 4Post a comment with 'single quotes' somewhere in the body Save it it looks fine now edit the comment and the single quotes have ain front of them ex. 's ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Contentteller 2.0 Test 1 available
Contentteller 2.0 Test 1 availableIt’s here :). Esselbach Contentteller (formerly known as Storyteller) Test 1 is now available as free download for all registered users in the members area.This is an expe ...
Philipp General Questions 916
Contentteller 2.0 Test 1 availableIt’s here :). Esselbach Contentteller (formerly known as Storyteller) Test 1 is now available as free download for all registered users in the members area.This is an expe ...
Philipp General Questions 916
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Phillip I have a problem
Phillip I have a problemMy installation of ST at www.allopenjobs.com won't accept any RSS feeds as news sources, even though they all are perfectly valid. The installation is brand new, no mods or anything ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Phillip I have a problemMy installation of ST at www.allopenjobs.com won't accept any RSS feeds as news sources, even though they all are perfectly valid. The installation is brand new, no mods or anything ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Limited permissions problem
Limited permissions problemI have a custom page for submitting downloads which use PAD files on my site. Using your suggestion in this thread http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=517 , I've made it so on ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Limited permissions problemI have a custom page for submitting downloads which use PAD files on my site. Using your suggestion in this thread http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=517 , I've made it so on ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Hello Philips, need some help to make my site
Hello Philips, need some help to make my siteWell, actually i have interest for majorgeeks.com than i have take time to here... and now is the time. I need to use some machine and i have choose this one. a ...
cybersquate General Questions 916
Hello Philips, need some help to make my siteWell, actually i have interest for majorgeeks.com than i have take time to here... and now is the time. I need to use some machine and i have choose this one. a ...
cybersquate General Questions 916
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Storyteller and vbulletin, comment authors
Storyteller and vbulletin, comment authorsHi Philipp,Quick question. I'm using vbulletin integration with the news comments, is there any way we can link to the author's member pages or getting their user ...
jfranco General Questions 916
Storyteller and vbulletin, comment authorsHi Philipp,Quick question. I'm using vbulletin integration with the news comments, is there any way we can link to the author's member pages or getting their user ...
jfranco General Questions 916
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Basic 3 column layout
Basic 3 column layoutWhat is the simplest way to make all pages have three columns, with the middle one containing the news.Essentially, I want a right column for stuff such as advertisements, pictures, an ...
kdobson99 General Questions 916
Basic 3 column layoutWhat is the simplest way to make all pages have three columns, with the middle one containing the news.Essentially, I want a right column for stuff such as advertisements, pictures, an ...
kdobson99 General Questions 916
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CSS only layout for the next version
CSS only layout for the next versionMay I suggest you use this (or consider) using for the next version of your CMShttp://www.strictlycss.com/articles/article/40/the-only-css-layout-you-needIt seems to sup ...
cosmin General Questions 916
CSS only layout for the next versionMay I suggest you use this (or consider) using for the next version of your CMShttp://www.strictlycss.com/articles/article/40/the-only-css-layout-you-needIt seems to sup ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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full news view
full news viewhi , everyone . I have an question . I decided to use storyteller for my site.its all about hardware news and reviews , software..... Now. the default view of full story islooking bad . i man ...
p3l1n General Questions 916
full news viewhi , everyone . I have an question . I decided to use storyteller for my site.its all about hardware news and reviews , software..... Now. the default view of full story islooking bad . i man ...
p3l1n General Questions 916
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Debug enabled kills website
Debug enabled kills websiteIs there anyway to disable debug without reinstalling? I can't login to cadmin because of it. One more thing to fix for 2.0 That's what I get for being curious.
cosmin General Questions 916
Debug enabled kills websiteIs there anyway to disable debug without reinstalling? I can't login to cadmin because of it. One more thing to fix for 2.0 That's what I get for being curious.
cosmin General Questions 916
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Categories in CT 2.0
Categories in CT 2.0Hi Philipp,I recently relaunched the TS blog and decided to use WordPress which I believe is more suitable for this kind of task, plus I wanted to experiment with some other backend sof ...
jfranco General Questions 916
Categories in CT 2.0Hi Philipp,I recently relaunched the TS blog and decided to use WordPress which I believe is more suitable for this kind of task, plus I wanted to experiment with some other backend sof ...
jfranco General Questions 916
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Is storyteller right for fiction writers?
Is storyteller right for fiction writers?hello, I am trying to find a simple, easily customisable system for amateur writers to share their work. Most of us use blogs, but blogs organise entries by date i ...
Stella O General Questions 916
Is storyteller right for fiction writers?hello, I am trying to find a simple, easily customisable system for amateur writers to share their work. Most of us use blogs, but blogs organise entries by date i ...
Stella O General Questions 916
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Downloads and custom fields on the first page
Downloads and custom fields on the first pageHi. Philipp. I have a problem. I would like to have something like this on the frontpage:Program title + version(custom field)Description ->pulled from downl ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Downloads and custom fields on the first pageHi. Philipp. I have a problem. I would like to have something like this on the frontpage:Program title + version(custom field)Description ->pulled from downl ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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please clear my doubt
please clear my doubtDear philip,hw r u? it is verynice to use your cms of storyteller.when i m installing the storyteller, i feel very comfortable to work.after install the cms, i delete the 4 folders wha ...
karthikeyan_1211 General Questions 916
please clear my doubtDear philip,hw r u? it is verynice to use your cms of storyteller.when i m installing the storyteller, i feel very comfortable to work.after install the cms, i delete the 4 folders wha ...
karthikeyan_1211 General Questions 916
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Pre-order questions.
Pre-order questions.Greetings!I have a few questions about CMS.1.If i buy curent version, will i get free upgrade to 2.0?2.Is that possible to make so that some sections of site like Articlesor anything ot ...
yura369 General Questions 916
Pre-order questions.Greetings!I have a few questions about CMS.1.If i buy curent version, will i get free upgrade to 2.0?2.Is that possible to make so that some sections of site like Articlesor anything ot ...
yura369 General Questions 916
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phpBB, BBWrappers, and Story Teller
phpBB, BBWrappers, and Story Tellerive been playing around with the freeware script for some time now, and i like the ability to customize it.However, the forum, private messages and comment system isnt wh ...
user101 General Questions 916
phpBB, BBWrappers, and Story Tellerive been playing around with the freeware script for some time now, and i like the ability to customize it.However, the forum, private messages and comment system isnt wh ...
user101 General Questions 916
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Merry Christmas
Merry ChristmasI wish Merry Christmas to all customers and just added another year of free updates to all existing Storyteller CMS licenses :)
Philipp General Questions 916
Merry ChristmasI wish Merry Christmas to all customers and just added another year of free updates to all existing Storyteller CMS licenses :)
Philipp General Questions 916
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2006 MySQL server went away
2006 MySQL server went awayDo you have any idea what that means, Philipp?
cosmin General Questions 916
2006 MySQL server went awayDo you have any idea what that means, Philipp?
cosmin General Questions 916
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Still using $_POST for search?
Still using $_POST for search?Philipp, am I wrong or does the 2.0 version still use $_POST for searches?
cosmin General Questions 916
Still using $_POST for search?Philipp, am I wrong or does the 2.0 version still use $_POST for searches?
cosmin General Questions 916
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Adding RSS news source breaks Contentteller 2.0 beta
Adding RSS news source breaks Contentteller 2.0 betaI installed Esselbach 2.0 herehttp://www.file-portal.net/ess20/index.php in a separate database, and it all works fine. But, after adding an RSS news sou ...
cosmin General Questions 916
Adding RSS news source breaks Contentteller 2.0 betaI installed Esselbach 2.0 herehttp://www.file-portal.net/ess20/index.php in a separate database, and it all works fine. But, after adding an RSS news sou ...
cosmin General Questions 916
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Permissions error
Permissions errorim getting the errorA file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again. i have changed nothing with the CMS, and am ...
user101 General Questions 916
Permissions errorim getting the errorA file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again. i have changed nothing with the CMS, and am ...
user101 General Questions 916
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Encrypted files
Encrypted filesI'm replying here as the encryption of the CT2.0 scripts isn't really a bug. :)Originally posted by Rushian: I *really* don't like the encrypted files.Originally posted by Philipp: I am afra ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Encrypted filesI'm replying here as the encryption of the CT2.0 scripts isn't really a bug. :)Originally posted by Rushian: I *really* don't like the encrypted files.Originally posted by Philipp: I am afra ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Can't login!, encrypted files
Can't login!, encrypted filesOk, I installed CT2.0 into a new folder in my web site's cgi-bin folder.1) Couldn't run the CT installer without first manually installing the ioncube loder into my php.ini fil ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Can't login!, encrypted filesOk, I installed CT2.0 into a new folder in my web site's cgi-bin folder.1) Couldn't run the CT installer without first manually installing the ioncube loder into my php.ini fil ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Can't create user(s) CT2 test 1, release 3
Can't create user(s) CT2 test 1, release 3Is it just me, or does anyone have problems creating new users using the admin CP? I'm on Win2003/IIS.After filling in the form (entire top part), I get a blank pa ...
Rushian General Questions 916
Can't create user(s) CT2 test 1, release 3Is it just me, or does anyone have problems creating new users using the admin CP? I'm on Win2003/IIS.After filling in the form (entire top part), I get a blank pa ...
Rushian General Questions 916
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Error: Can't write header_block cache
Error: Can't write header_block cacheActually the website running normal. But I've change from IIS+PHP (ISAPI mod) to IIS+FastCGI+PHP,The old model makes my website down very frequently and slowly too. I h ...
huuquynh General Questions 916
Error: Can't write header_block cacheActually the website running normal. But I've change from IIS+PHP (ISAPI mod) to IIS+FastCGI+PHP,The old model makes my website down very frequently and slowly too. I h ...
huuquynh General Questions 916
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Category not showing all articles
Category not showing all articlesHi,I have Storyteller v1.8.I have some news sub-categories with hundreds of articles in them, but the category.php?id= page only displays the last 20 news items. There's no ...
BorisB General Questions 916
Category not showing all articlesHi,I have Storyteller v1.8.I have some news sub-categories with hundreds of articles in them, but the category.php?id= page only displays the last 20 news items. There's no ...
BorisB General Questions 916
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Fix the registration on your site.
Fix the registration on your site.I had such a hard time registering as it kept saying invalid code. Kept going to the registration page and it kept showing the same security code so I kept guesing on thos ...
amichan General Questions 916
Fix the registration on your site.I had such a hard time registering as it kept saying invalid code. Kept going to the registration page and it kept showing the same security code so I kept guesing on thos ...
amichan General Questions 916
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Main Page Template
Main Page TemplateOk, new to the script, been playing around with it quite alot and i like it.however i have ran into a spot of trouble, when i click the home page which goes to index.phpthe template loade ...
xiossoix General Questions 916
Main Page TemplateOk, new to the script, been playing around with it quite alot and i like it.however i have ran into a spot of trouble, when i click the home page which goes to index.phpthe template loade ...
xiossoix General Questions 916
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Couple of Questions, mainly for v2
Couple of Questions, mainly for v2I've kept a close eye on Esselbach for a long time, and with V2 not too far off (I hope).I've been looking into it again.I have mainly 1 question. With Esselbach, you have ...
Finchwizard General Questions 916
Couple of Questions, mainly for v2I've kept a close eye on Esselbach for a long time, and with V2 not too far off (I hope).I've been looking into it again.I have mainly 1 question. With Esselbach, you have ...
Finchwizard General Questions 916
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Download use other database...
Download use other database...Hi,My website includes: homepage and forum database.But when user click to download link, I don't know why it use forum database. That means we insert item in download is ok, ...
huuquynh General Questions 916
Download use other database...Hi,My website includes: homepage and forum database.But when user click to download link, I don't know why it use forum database. That means we insert item in download is ok, ...
huuquynh General Questions 916
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News categories, tagging
News categories, taggingAs I understand there is no tagging feature on ST 1.x, but there will be on 2.0 and on. In the meantime I'm trying to implement categories which did not seem to matter much for my s ...
jfranco General Questions 916
News categories, taggingAs I understand there is no tagging feature on ST 1.x, but there will be on 2.0 and on. In the meantime I'm trying to implement categories which did not seem to matter much for my s ...
jfranco General Questions 916
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