Time Machine + FileVault

I recently got an external hard drive to use with Time Machine, but it says that I need to turn off FileVault. When I try to turn off Filevault, everything quits, but then an error pops up that says System Preferences is busy and is preventing logout, but I need to use System Preferences to turn off Filevault. When I click Turn off, Filevault does quit System Preferences, so I'm at a loss. Is there a way to turn off Filevault or to use Time Machine without turning it off? If you need additional details, please, feel free.

Well if you want to turn off FileVault, then first turn off TM. Be sure you have sufficient free space on your hard drive for the full decryption of your user folder. You will need somewhat more space than the size of your encrypted user folder. If you don't have enough free space you cannot turn off FileVault. This will take some time, of course.

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    I got 2 external hard drives. The first, 250gb, has 3 Mac Os partitions, one of them of 180 gb I use to backup my macbook (120 gb hd with filevault) with time machine. Everything ok. The other, 300gb, 2 partitions one with mac os the other for win with ntfs. The mac partition is 200 gb. When I try to backup, time machine says I need 360 gb (!!). In fact, If i look info of my encrypted home, it says it is 220 gb. What's happening? Why with one disk everything is ok and with the other no? I can say also that in the past, I had no problem with the second disk. Maybe now my home is too big to be backed up the first time, while the other disk was ready yet since when my home folder was more little?

    dwb wrote:
    To stop backing up because TimeMachine does mobile backups and takes up some hard drive is like disconnecting the brakes of your car because using brakes wear them out and they are expensive to repair.
    Yes, they are similar.  One will kill you, your family, and everyone in your vicinity, while the other will potentially cause you to lose Aunt Ruth's vacation photos.
    You'd be crazy to either disconnect your automobile's brakes or turn off Mobile Backup in Time Machine.  Absoutely insane.
    Since you've already gotten reasonable and rational technical support on this issue, as one always does on the Internet, I feel reticient to add anything.
    Alas, I'm feeling adventurous, so here goes:
    If you'd like to disable mobile backups to your internal hard drive, and would like Time Machine to only back up to your external drive, fire up the terminal and type: sudo tmutil disablelocal
    The local hard drive backups are "normal", and they will be deleted should you need the HD space for other files.  I actually like the feature and leave it on.
    Some people don't like it, however, and if you count yourself among those people, use the above command.
    P.S. Disabling Mobile Backups is nothing like disabling the brakes on your car.

  • Time Machine, FileVault & Windows Backup Best Practice

    I read a lot on the forums about people wanting the best way to backup, when they had FileVault and also Windows files.
    This is what I did, I have a 250 GB Lacie external drive:
    1) 2 Partitions: 177 GB Mac OS Extended, 55 GB FAT32 (This disk was entirely FAT32 and MacOS Disk Utility wouldn't resize it to make space or even recognize the unpartitioned space I created in Windows, using a third party tool. So I resized in Windows, created a new ext2 partition, connected to Mac and erased it as Mac OS Extended. Mac sees 2 partitions now and automatically wants to use one for TimeMachine)
    2) I use FileVault on my home folder, only for personal pictures and documents. I keep the iTunes music folder out of my home folder
    3) Use Time Machine to back up everything but my home folder
    4) Create an encrypted image of my FileVaulted home folder on the same backup disk that I created. For ease, I use the same password as that of my login account. I used the Disk Utility's Image from Folder option for this.
    So My pictures and documents are encrypted on my machine, they are copied as one encrypted file into the backup drive, and the rest of my machine is backed up by File Vault. I do not have to log out, though it is a manual step for me to create the Image from folder. I don't mind doing that for now as I will need to do it only when I add new pictures to this folder. I would then make a new image on the backup drive.
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    I set Super Duper to Back Up my PowerMac and to shut down after completing the back up, then i went to sleep. Six hours later, I woke up when I heard the fans spinning profusely and the Mac still not 'shut down'. Got following error log. Does anyone knows what has went wrong? Have I potentially 'fried' the CPU?
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    Description: System events log
    Size: 25 KB
    Last Modified: 4/22/08 6:11 AM
    Location: /var/log/system.log
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    Apr 22 00:07:13 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 com.apple.launchd[64] ([0x0-0xb00b0].jp.co.canon.bj.printer.app.MPNavigator[693]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 695 PPID 1 MP Navigator
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    Apr 22 02:10:48 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 SMARTReporter[101]: ATA Drive: 'Hitachi HDT725032VLA360' - SMART condition not exceeded, drive OK!
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    Apr 22 06:07:18 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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    Apr 22 06:07:20 localhost fseventsd[26]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 77035FE8-86D2-4B05-AE4E-F897A4A724B3
    Apr 22 06:07:20 localhost kernel[0]: 4.170.25.8.2Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC4PE/ht@0,f2000000/AppleMacRiscHT/pci@5/IOPCI2PCIBridge/k2-sat a-root@C/AppleK2SATARoot/k2-sata@1/AppleK2SATA/ATADeviceNub@0/AppleATADiskDriver /IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 Hitachi HDT725032VLA360/IOApplePartitionScheme/AppleHFS_Untitled1@3
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    Apr 22 06:08:01 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[43]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Ian Phua's Public Folder) returned -14135
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    Apr 22 06:08:08 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 fseventsd[26]: event logs in /Volumes/Lacie SP/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (97169 10 104382)
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    Apr 22 06:08:21 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer[1 08]: CPSGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
    Apr 22 06:08:21 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer[1 08]: CPSPBGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
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    Apr 22 06:08:37 ian-phuas-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/Problem Reporter.app/Contents/MacOS/Problem Reporter[138]: CPSPBGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
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  • Time Machine-FileVault! Please help!

    Hi,
    I have tried looking extensively on the net and here, but can not seem to find an answer that I understand or that helps. I am not sure what else to do and need some advice.
    To cut the story short, I decided to encrypt my macbook due to some confidential work files being on there. I run time machine as my back up. From what I could see, it backs up the entire drive. I have since seen on line that it only backs up when you log out, I find this a little strange.
    Anyway, I had some issues which caused me to do a full wipe of the system and start again. I restored from the Time Machine and when it came to logging in, it would not allow me. I re installed Mac OSX and then tried to restore from back up, it seemed to copy across 23gb of something but whatever it was, it did not show anything on my system.
    I have 10 years of photos, music and documents on there and would really love not to lose it all, I thought I was doing the right thing by backing up etc
    I have a couple drives, the actual time machine I individually copied stuff onto recently before using time machine, I am thinking about paying to try and retrieve that stuff.
    Can anyone help at all?
    Thanks

    To understand what's happened you need to learn how FileVault works:
    Your home folder is stored in a sparsebundle disk image in /Users.
    When you log in that sparsebundle is mounted as /Users/username
    Because Time Machine excludes mounted volumes it ignores /Users/username
    It cannot backup the sparsebundle while it's mounted which is why it only works when you're logged out.
    Even though things are broken in terms of logging in, so long as you can find the sparsebundle file in /Users you can mount it and get to your stuff.
    You're probably best off getting your machine to create a new admin user and use this working user account to locate and operate on the old account's sparsebundle. To do this you need to boot into single user mode and remove the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file and then go through the original initial setup process which will create an additional admin account (and set itself up to autologin to the new account)
    If this is not making sense to you then I'd recommend popping into an Apple Store for a Genius appointment if you can.
    FileVault is probably best avoided unless absolutely necessary.

  • Locked out after time machine - FileVault?

    This is a woeful chain of events...
    Several applications were bugging me to upgrade to Yosemite OS especially those connected with iCloud.
    Eventually I decided to install on both desktop and laptop. Laptop worked fine.
    Desktop wouldn't install owing to Hard Drive needing repair.
    Of course now I can't log in so I used Cmd R (OS X Recovery) and tried to repair the disk
    This wouldn't work. I created an external Mavericks OS disc to log in and backed up all my files just to be safe.
    Then I used the time machine restore to go back to my older Mac (before i started the Yosemite install)
    But now I can't lot into my main admin account (where all my most precious files are saved) as i get a message saying "Your home folder which is protected by Filevault didn't open. It needs to be repaired." Please click to proceed.
    Well none of this works. In addition, if I log in to another admin account (no problem with this - but no Filevault either) I cannot access any of the backup files I saved - the user folder has a "no entry sign (uk)" and all my music and photos and documents are invisible even though the folders are clearly holding a lot of data.
    So in short - Apple tempts me to update my OS. I'm given no preparatory instructions to perform before the install. The install fails. I use OS Recover and Time Machine. But I am still blocked out of all my files. I've spent 2 days trying to find a way to do this. Please help.
    :  Model Identifier: iMac7,1
    :  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
    :Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
    L2 Cache: 4 MB
    Memory: 4 GB
    Bus Speed: 800 MHz
    OS X 10.9.5 at the moment
    Model Name: iMac

    Klingon725 wrote:
    Not sure if this is a Time Machine issue or not, but I did a Repair Permissions operation on my startup drive (an older Mac Mini 100GB drive) after I had set up Time Machine to backup my startup drive on a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB external drive. Since the Repair Permissions, neither TM nor I can access the external drive; when I try to open the drive in Finder, I get the following message: "The folder “FreeAgent Drive” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."
    Those two things shouldn't be related.
    Disk Utility thinks the drive is fine
    Do you mean +*Repair Disk?+*
    See #C6 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

  • Lion - Time Machine - Filevault

    Has anyone tested Time Machine and Filevault in Lion?
    Do users still need to logoff to start the backup process?
    Does the backup media need to have the same amount of storage space as the primary machine or can you restrict the data that is backed up?

    If you're still using the original File Vault, it hasn't changed.
    If you turned it off, and are now using File Vault 2, Time Machine works as it does on a "normal" account.
    See the beginning of #25 in  Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

  • Time Machine / FileVault / External Backup solutions needed.

    Hi,
    I have a MBP that was playing up a little while ago, after visiting the Apple store I was told to back up my data and do a clean install of Snow Leopard, once that's done, to only pull back the files/folders needed, this has all be done and my MBP is working lovely now.
    I am now backing up my information to an External HDD on a regular basis via Time Machine (TM) and that's great, BUT I can't password protect the EX-HDD!
    Question: Is there a way to password protect my EX-HDD? I shall be partitioning the drive soon and sharing it with another user and I don't want them to be able to access my files and folders.
    What options do I have, I've been YouTube'ing all day and checking the forums but I just can't seem to find a definitive answer.
    My goals are: -
    1) To allow another user to back up their MB to my EX-HDD on their partition of the drive.
    2) Password protect my partition on the EX-HDD so access to read/write is only granted once password is accepted.
    3) Continue to use TM on both partitions when backing up
    Question - Is FileVault a viable option? I've read that once files are encrypted the lag literally spoils the experience of OSX.
    Question - Do FileVault and Time Machine work seamlessly together?
    Any help is greatly appreciated, I've been trying to find a solution to this all day.

    Hey thanks for your input, I was reading about another solution which I have started, where I can use Disk Utility to encrypt folder/files and only mount them when needed. There were two options to do this.
    (1) is to create a sparse disk image - and I believe that I would then set a size limit for the disk image encrypt it, provide a password and let TM back up the .dmg file and away I go.
    or
    (2) is to create a sparse bundle disk image, same as option one, only it will just encrypt portions of files/folders that have been changed and not the whole image like option 1.
    I've gone with option two and given it a dummy run and it's all good, however when setting the allocated sizes for the volumes and the image is created, is there anyway to increase and decrease the allocated amount at any given time? And if so, how...?
    And to clarify Sparse disk bundle image + Time Machine = play nicely?
    I've tried to be as clear as possible and I hope that the above makes some sense.

  • Time Machine FileVault Exclude

    is it possible to exclude files/directories in encrypted home? because when I browse disk through Time Machine Exlude List my home is grayed out

    Do you really need to have your entire home folder encrypted? For most folks, that's huge overkill, and has a number of problems, as you've seen.
    An alternative is to make an +encrypted disk image,+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder), and put your sensitive documents there.
    Then turn off File Vault (be careful - note the warnings there).
    Then the rest of your home folder can be backed-up, browsed, and restored normally. Only the disk image will be treated as one big file.

  • Can't copy some files from FileVault Sparsebundle in Time Machine backup

    I've got filevault turned on for my mac Mac Mini (10.6.2). I'm using Time Machine to back up to a firewire drive. There's plenty of space - my Mini hd has 250 Gb of 500 used, and I'm backing up to a 750Gb partition on the external drive. The initial backup went OK, and when I logged out it backed up my filevault-protected home directory. When I logged back in, I was able to browse the Backups.backupdb on the external drive, go to the users directory, and open the sparsebundle that was my filevault-protected home directory (after entering the password). I can browse through this backup of my home directory. However, when I try copying files from the backup of the home directory, I get an error:
    The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "(filename)" can't be read or written. (Error code -36).
    I get this error for some files, but not all of them. I've tried running BatChmod to reset permissions on all files in my home directory, and then erasing the backup drive and having Time Machine recreate the backup. However I'm still having this problem.
    I have also tried restoring the entire hard drive (to a 3rd external HD) by booting from the 10.6 DVD and going through the full-restore process. All of my files are fine when I restore using this method.
    Is there something I should do so that I can restore individual files from the backup of my filevault sparsebundle? It is extremly inconvenient to have to do a full hard drive restore if all I want is a file or two, and of course if the motherboard on my mini dies and I can't get a close enough replacement computer, then I could really be up a creek.
    Thanks,
    John F
    New York

    feinberj wrote:
    I've got filevault turned on for my mac Mac Mini (10.6.2). I'm using Time Machine to back up to a firewire drive. There's plenty of space - my Mini hd has 250 Gb of 500 used, and I'm backing up to a 750Gb partition on the external drive. The initial backup went OK, and when I logged out it backed up my filevault-protected home directory. When I logged back in, I was able to browse the Backups.backupdb on the external drive, go to the users directory, and open the sparsebundle that was my filevault-protected home directory (after entering the password). I can browse through this backup of my home directory. However, when I try copying files from the backup of the home directory, I get an error:
    The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "(filename)" can't be read or written. (Error code -36).
    I get this error for some files, but not all of them. I've tried running BatChmod to reset permissions on all files in my home directory, and then erasing the backup drive and having Time Machine recreate the backup. However I'm still having this problem.
    I have also tried restoring the entire hard drive (to a 3rd external HD) by booting from the 10.6 DVD and going through the full-restore process. All of my files are fine when I restore using this method.
    Is there something I should do so that I can restore individual files from the backup of my filevault sparsebundle?
    Don't try to restore files individually by hand using finder. TM backups are protected by very restrictive ACLs and are not designed to be accessed that way.
    you can restore the whole sparse bundle with the home directory from TM interface. you should be logged in as a different user when you do this. the easiest is to be logged in as root so as not to deal with any permissions issues.
    another thing you might try is doing it from command line instead of finder. this is also not the designed way but might work where finder copy doesn't.
    to do this run the following terminal command after you mount the sparse bundle with backups of the home directory
    ditto --noacl path/to/source/file /path/to/target/directory
    here path/to/source file is the path to the file in the sparse bundle you want to restore and path/to target directory is the path to the folder where you want to copy it to. an easy way to get the path to an item is to drag that item to the terminal window. make sure that you have all the spaces correctly in the command.
    It is extremly inconvenient to have to do a full hard drive restore if all I want is a file or two, and of course if the motherboard on my mini dies and I can't get a close enough replacement computer, then I could really be up a creek.
    Thanks,
    John F
    New York

  • Old FileVault crashed my MacBook Pro, had to delete, reinstall and Time Machine restore failed. Trying to manually rebuild. No iPhoto pics, no iTunes music and NO DOCUMENTS found! Any thoughts?

    Here's the ordeal. I'm running a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 inch with Lion OS. When I converted to Lion, I didn't have enough room on my harddrive to convert to the new FileVault, so I remained on the old system. Less than a week ago I reboot my computer because iPhoto seems to be stuck on "cataloging" my photos, though after days of letting it run, it doesn't do anything. After the reboot, my computer appears as if it had been reset to factory settings with all my programs gone, etc. I'm like, hey, I've got Time Machine, I'll restore it. After the restore is run, when I go to login, I get the dreadful error message, "You are unable to log into the FileVault user "John" at this time. Logging into the account failed because an error occurred". I searched the internet via my iPhone for suggestions and followed everyone of them, all the way down to erasing my harddrive and reinstalling Lion. So I get back into my computer and think I'm golden. I go to restore my computer via Time Machine and wham....I'm right back to that error message. I think, ok, I'll do it again. This time it messes us even more, giving me two login screens, one for the new Lion like before I restored the computer and then a second, as if it were restored, but unable to login. On top of that, I couldn't get back to the Command-R page! I thought I was really screwed! Well, I finally figured a way back, or maybe it was just that it finally decided to cooperate, I don't know, but I erased my harddrive again, and reinstalled again and thought, well, I'll rebuild manually by selecting what I want to restore from the Time Machine drive. I was able to get all my applications back and running, but to my dismay, I seemingly have lost all my iTunes music (except that which Apple has graciously setup to redownload now "thank you!) plus all my iPhoto's and even worse, all my DOCUMENTS!!!! Here I thought Time Machine from backing all this stuff up, but with over a years worth of back-ups I cannot locate any photos, music, or my documents on my drive to extract! Needless to say, I will never be using Time Machine again to back up my computer, I'll find another program or at least do it all manually. But my question is: am I looking in the wrong places for this files? Are they hidden under some unknowning folder that doesn't list it as music, photos or files? I can manage with the music, I can live with the photos because my wife has many of them on her computer and I have many uploaded to Facebook, but my files! My documents, thousands of them, many with information I won't be able to compile again, seemingly gone unless someone out there has any ideas?!!!
    I even had iPhoto search the drive for photos and after hours of the barber shop pole spinning I cancelled the command for I figured it wasn't going to find anything.
    If anyone has any suggestions, or if Apple, you are reading this and can provide some direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Also - my battery has been telling me "service battery" for a LONG time and then it switched to "replace soon" som time ago. Can't really see what this has to do with anything but whatever.
    That could conceivably explain all the problems you're describing. Replacing a Mac's battery should not be postponed since a failed battery will cause other problems to occur. It is also possible that its hard disk has failed, which means the information on it may soon become unrecoverable.
    ... my latest TM back up was from April 2014, can I just run this when I have rescued everthing and then it might not be as slow?
    If that Time Machine backup remains intact, it may be the only viable means of recovering that Mac's information. I suggest you do not attempt to restore its contents to your ailing Mac.
    Given that you are having trouble creating a newer Time Machine backup you should stop using that Mac immediately and have it serviced as soon as you are able. Do not take it to anyone other than Apple or a service facility authorized by Apple, for the very reasons you explained. If there are no Apple Stores in your vicinity search for an Authorized Apple Service Provider using the Contact Us link below. Use one of the options that appear under Contact Apple Support. The language on that page will be different for your location.

  • I'm having a problem with logging into a FileVault-protected user account after restoring from Time Machine backup.

    Hi all,
    My computer had been running really slowly for a while, so I decided to erase the whole hard drive and reinstall the operating system, and then I was going to restore the files I cared about from Time Machine. The main account, which had all my documents and photos, was FileVault-protected. The last thing I did before erasing the hard drive was to run one last Time Machine backup. As far as I remember, I always ran Time Machine backups with the FileVaulted user logged in.
    I don't remember whether I was using FileVault 1 or 2. I had been using FileVault 1, but I installed Lion as soon as it came out and I thought I had migrated to FileVault 2 at that point.
    Once I erased the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system, I browsed the Time Machine disk and, within the Users folder, there was no folder for the main user account. When I tried to reinstall everything by restoring from Time Machine backup, I'd get the option for all the user accounts, but when I tried to log in with the main one I'd get the dreaded "You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "User" at this time. Log in failed because an error occurred." Finally, when attempting to restore from the Time Machine backup again, I noticed something strange: After the computer got to about 10% done restoring, it declared itself completed successfully and rebooted.
    I've tried a number of tips that came up from questions about similar issues on the Apple support forum, but had no luck. Is there any way to get these files back? Did they ever even get backed up?
    Thanks.

    Hroodbwai wrote:
    I can't find it! not sure what's going on but the only folder shown is the " Shared" folder.
    Did you have only the one user account? If there were others, they should also be in the "Users" folder. You probably won't have access to the files inside them, but they should be there.
    From what can make out, it looks like it's not backed up any of the files for the filevault account. Can't see user folder when looking through previous backups in Time Machine galaxy view.
    Are you doing that from a Finder window set to your internal HD, or your computer name? It should look something like this (with the Finder in List view):
    |
    |
    I'd been logging out and backing up manually on a regular basis.
    Scheduled backups should run normally; but they won't back up the File Vault sparse bundle, nor will any run manually.
    The only time it's backed-up is when you actually log out.
    You should have seen this window on logout:
    |
    |
    followed by this one:
    |
    |
    If you didn't see the second one, or cancelled it, the account wasn't backed-up.

  • Time Machine repeatedly does full backups, including FileVault while logged in

    So let me preface this - for months I'd hoped for a way that Time Machine could backup my FileVault encrypted account without logging out.  Last night Snow Leopard spontaneously started doing this.  I know many may think that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, but read further and hopefully someone can help me make sense of this.
    Last night I attached my external 1TB USB hard drove to my 15" MBP (spring 2010 model) running OS X 10.6.7.  It started doing a Time Machine backup automatically, as usual.  Since I was logged into my account that uses FileVault (a massive home folder - 220GB) I expected a fast backup of things only outside my home folder.  As i looked at the details, however, i quickly realized that it was backing up all 270GB of data on my hard drive - including my FileVault account while still logged in! 
    At first i thought i just got lucky - i'd been craving this feature for years and it just happened to me without even doing anything.  Curious guy that i am, i logged out of my acct with my USB drive still attached to see what would happen.  After FileVault cleared out space in my home folder, it did _another_ backup, that took about 10 minutes to complete.  This seemed strange so i logged back in and started another backup manually.  To my utter shock, it started doing the whole 270GB over again! 
    I even cleared out my TM drive, erased, reformatted, checked permissions, etc etc and did the same on my system drive, hoping that it was just a matter of broken permissions.  No change.
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