Two way File Sharing

I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac - both with the latest versions of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.2). Both are connected to the internet via wireless network.
I can connect my MacBookPro with the iMac, but if the same strategy is applied the the iMac I get an error message. "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "afp://192/168.1.64/" could not be read or written. (error code -36).
The MacBookPro connects to the iMac, no problem - what do I need to change on my MacBookPro to give my iMac access?

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File Sharing on a mixed Tiger-Leopard network

I have a LAN with two machines, a PPC with 10.4.11 and a new Laptop with 10.5.1. If I turn on file sharing on the Tiger machine, I can see and access it from Leopard. But if I turn on file sharing on the Laptop, I can find the laptop as a server when I browse from the Tiger machine, but cannot connect to it. So essentially I have one way file sharing.
The network is a new Apple Airport Extreme and the problem exists whether I have the laptop connected wirelessly or through a hard ethernet port, so I don't think it is the LAN.
A tech support call to Apple resulted in a transfer from the first technician to a product support unit ("... this may be an emerging Leopard issue") and a 2 hour hold before the call was dropped. Worst customer support I have had from Apple-- and I have been a customer since a Mac Plus and system 3.2...
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Finally figured this out. It has to do with the changes in how Leopard implements a Firewall. The firewall settings in Leopard have been moved from the "Sharing" panel to "Security".
The solution for me was to go to the Leopard machine System Prefs and turn on file sharing. (Note that "Screen Sharing" only works between two Leopard systems) Add whatever folders you want shared; the default is to share only the "Public" folder. I also changed the users to "read & write"; the default is "read only" after highlighting the folders I wanted write privileges on. You have to do this folder by folder. If you want file sharing using anything but the Apple File Protocol (AFP), you have to set it under "options".
Now go to the "Security" Panel and click "Firewall". The Leopard Firewall set to "Allow only essential services" blocks file sharing. Set it to "Set access for specific services and applications". You should see "File Sharing (AFP)" in the window.
The Leopard system can now be found by browsing servers from other machines on the network.

Is there a way to have all/ the important files shared on two mac computers without a service like dropbox?

I was looking to get a Mac Mini to use with my Cinema Display so I had something of a desktop computing station. I am concerned though of the ability to have all or at least my word documents, power points, etc., graphic projects, my pdfs, and my non iphoto images transfering between computers. I currently have a macbook air running 10.8.4 and plan to upgrade to Maverics when it comes out. I DO NOT want to use a service like Dropbox. I would much rather prefer a smooth and automatic transfer of the files without any steps to transfer. Please let me know if AND HOW this is possible.

Simple file sharing SHOULD do this on the local network as BDAqua points out. If you want to physcially move files without having to go through uploading and downloading via Dropbox, use FileDrop. It's free and files go directly to the receiving computer through your LAN - in ONE step.

File Sharing creamed two Macs

How we creamed two Macs running Leopard, and how we got them back.
My husband got a new early 2008 MacPro and gave me his iMac. Initially we tried to use the Migration Assistant to move his data, but that hung, and caused us to have to start over. Then we moved over mail and other files, booting the iMac in transfer mode. But, after the majority of the data was moved, I wanted to move the iMac to a different room. So, I had the bright idea to share the Macintosh HD on the iMac, so he could see what applications he used to have, and move over any data files he needed. For some reason, I also decided to share the MacPro HD. The share access was read only.
Then I read that it was not a good idea to share the HD, as someone coming in over the Internet could gain access. We do have a router, but I like to be safe. So, I took the sharing off the iMac. I unclicked sharing, and removed "Everyone" from the sharing and permissions. I put the iMac to sleep that night, and it woke up fine the next day. I did notice the printer wasn't working, and the scanner, but thought it was something I did not understand about Macs. So, thinking everything was okay, I did the same thing to his machine.
He came in and immediately noticed some USB devices had been dropped, so rebooted. Or tried to. The MacPro would not reboot. About this time, I tried to run Repair Disk Permissions on the iMac and it hung for over an hour. We called Apple Support on the MacPro. They had us try resetting the pram and several other things and nothing worked. Then they told us to do an archive and restore. This has never worked for us. We had previously tried it many times with the iMac (later zeroed the disk and all was fine from then on). The support person knew we had a disk clone about 4 days old and Time Machine, but did not suggest using them. When the archive and restore failed, we went to Time Machine. We did not do it in the most efficient manner, but did get it done, and everything now appears to be fine, except, of course, we still have file sharing on both the Mac HDs. * And the Apple Support person insisted that changing the file sharing could NOT have caused this problem. Said he had many customers do it. This was the only thing we had done, and for both machines to fail in almost the same way...we are SURE it was the file sharing.
I also ordered a new external firewire disk drive so that I would have a clone as well as Time Machine. I have also turned on the firewall.
If someone has had the same problem, and solved it, I could try it on the clone.
The morals to this story: 1) if you get a new Mac, and need to transfer data, don't be in too big a hurry to give up transfer mode 2) Don't share your HardDisk, or if you do, don't unshare it 3) Have a plan restore plan in place - know how you are going to use Time Machine to recover from a catastrophic failure 4) Use Time Machine, it is wonderful!

HI Alex are you
sharing these two MACS over ETHERNET , WIFI, BTooth , FWire or other?
using the default AFP or possible SMB/CIFS (wondoze fs) to share. You would have had to specifiy this.
can you log into the users on each of the MACs individually - resolve that you access is correct
By default if each mac's users that you need are SHARED theough their individual SYSTEM PREFERENCES/SHARING/ FILE SHARING = ON, then they will appear vua BONJOUR (.local) on the local LAN and in each othes FINDER. You should see it also in the OSX 10.5.8 systems's finder.
If the above is true, each mac should be able to DROP items in the other mac users on the others HOST's PUBLIC/Drop Box folder in their home directory (~/Public/Drop Box). There is no need to log into each others user. Simply drop the objects in to the others PUBLIC/Drop Box folder
This works simply and is also no need to go to any extremes to set up.
That user can then access it in r/w mode.
Anyway post back on the above. Lts see if we can resolve it.
Post your results for others to see.
Warwick

Two Macs Networked, file sharing not working correctly

Okay, I've had a Mac Pro since February this year and it has been connected to a new iMac since about two days ago. Both computers can see each other on the ethernet network (their respective icons appear in the Finder sidebar). However, something weird is happening because not only are the correct "iMac" and "Mac Pro" icons showing, but also Windows "blue screen of death" icons are appearing also! These icons are named "mac001ffXXXXXXX" where XXXXXXX are a bunch of numbers. I can access the other computer's files by clicking on EITHER the official Mac icons in the sidebar, OR by clicking on the "blue screen of death" icons.
It should be noted that a Windows XP computer is also a part of this network. I currently have only the AFP sharing option selected (I did have both AFP and SMB, but I disabled SMB because Windows sharing is not really needed), but still the old Windows icon is appearing alongside the iMac icon -- both icons applicable to the iMac.
I believe this problem is connected to the file sharing issue I am having. While folders I have shared on the iMac can be seen by the Mac Pro, files on the Mac Pro for which I have specified Read and Write guest access to "Everyone" are not visible on the iMac -- the only way to access these files is to log in as a Registered User. I have tried a whole bunch of different things, but nothing seems to work. I was under the impression that communication between two Macs would be completely problem-free!
So is there something I am missing, or is it a Leopard issue?

A simple possibility is that you just don't have also have "Personal File Sharing" turned on for the Macs.
Otherwise, I bet it's on the PC end. Under windows filesharing (SMB), one machine will take control as the server. When there is a PC on the net, the Macs will generally cede that responsibility to the PC Try watching for that in the console log: take all the CPUs off the net, bring a Mac on, then the PC, open the "Console" app on the Mac, and look at the messages. If the problem -is- on the PC end, I'm sorry, but I'm not PC-savvy enough to tell you how to fix it. Hopefully, this will get you closer.

Problem conecting and file-sharing between two net-worked macs

I have a Mac Pro (in an out-building in my back-garden) and an Imac (in the house) connected by a long ethernet cable (must be at least 20 metres).
I used to have no trouble connecting one to the other till recently. I still usually have no trouble connecting to the Internet from the Mac Pro using the Imac's internet connection (wireless). The problem is in clicking on the Imac connection to open it in order to share files (also using "connect to server" in Go menu).
Much of the time (but not absolutely always), it refuses to connect, and I get a "failed connection message" (or something like "server does not exist" if using other method).
Sometimes, I can connect successfully, not just as a guest but after entering admin password, and then short time later the connection will disappear. When this happens, the Imac icon previously visible in the finder window also disappears. Unplugging and replugging the ethernet cable has no effect. Once I was using Itunes shared library to play a song on the Imac, and the song just suddenly disappeared.
Just now, after the Mac Pro-to-Imac conection failed again, I substituted my Ibook for the Imac in the house, and there was no problem at all connecting both ways between it and the Mac Pro. I then reconnected the Imac to the Mac Pro and it too connected fine. This proved at least that the ethernet cable was not at fault, but no doubt the problem will re-occur.
I have tried experimenting with the Firewall settings on the Imac, e.g. to "allow all incoming connections" or to "set access for specific services"( the latter is my usual setting on the Imac), but it made no difference. Also, the Ibook has no trouble at all connecting to the Imac when the Imac firewall is set to "specific services" so why should the Mac Pro have a problem (I admit I am a little uncertain about the best setting for the Firewall, but believe "specific services" to be correct).
File-sharing options in system prefs on the Imac are clearly properly set-up or there would never be any connection at all.
Often, although the Mac Pro to Imac connection will not work, the Imac to Mac Pro will, although not today, when the Mac Pro icon similarly was not present on the Imac.
As stated, I am pretty sure that all the time the internet connection from Mac Pro to Imac still works (Mac Pro shares Imac conection).
None of this appears to make much sense and am wondering if anyone has advice.

Hi,
It might be me but I don't think I have fully understood the "My Name's iMac" bit.
If you mean (my Name) iMac as opposed to (My Name) iBook or Shed computer then that is a separate issue I will describe below
Does the "My Name" bit mean like mine does in this pic ?
As you can see I have used the Edit Button to change the Name of this G4 to RalphG4
In System Preferences > Network > (Connection method) > Advanced Button > WINS tab I see this on my G4
I have in fact used the same "Computer name" here (As in RalphG4)
My MacBook Pro has had the Netbois Name changed to Macbook Pro
It shows in the G4 Shares as that.
The Finder's Preferences are set to Display the Bonjour and SMB shares that I can see as I have a Mixed PC and Mac Network here
(Currently only the MacBook Pro is On as well)
SMB Shares are not on in the MacBook Pro settings so it shows as a Mac Server (Highlight and do a Get Info)
Two Computers with Same Name
In Bonjour when two computers end up with the same name (As my two did originally) these double name issue cannot be resolved and the computer may be "Seen" briefly before it then disappears
I have not tried it with SMB shares on my two Macs having had issues with Bonjour.
(Note: iChat goes one step further.
Even if the computer names are different iChat uses the Name in the My Card spot in the Address Book to show as the Buddy Name in the Bonjour Buddy List.
It cannot resolve this if both computers are logged in as the same Person.)
Another reason why a computer may show up twice is how it or they are connected.
Lets say that all are connected to a router either by Wifi or Ethernet.
They will be then seen once.
If one computer is connected by Ethernet and Wifi at the same time then it will be shown twice as each appearance is linked to the Media Access Card it is using and the IP it uses for each connection.
This can also happen if one is linked directly to another with an Ethernet connection or Wifi whilst doing the other to the router.
Back to the naming thing again.
It is better to use the Edit Button (Arrowed in Blue above) (.Local Name) rather than trying to change the computer's Name (Ralph Johns's Computer) as this is less reliable in later versions of the OS.
8:52 PM Sunday; August 29, 2010

Setting up file sharing between two Macs

Just bought a new MBP. My wife will use the old MBP. Both running 10.9.4
Hers shows under ‘Shared’ in my Finder & mine in hers.
On clicking ‘Connect As’ from either laptop we are asked for a password.
I must be overlooking something basic, but for the life of me cannot work out how to set the password.
I have been into System Preferences/Sharing preferences & tried to add her as a user & vice versa. I can add each of us to the other’s list of users, but when either of us tries to connect & are prompted to enter a password, the password is rejected. Like wise if I go into File sharing ‘Options’, & find the user name in the account list (only he & me) on hers I am unticked & on mine she is unticked.
When I tick either box I am prompted again to enter a password (for SMB). Again on entering the password it is rejected.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Ian Lock wrote:
MrHoffman, by ‘log directly’ do you mean can I sit at my wife’s (or my) mac, type in the login passwords at the login screens & gain access? If so the answer is yes.
These are the same passwords I have been trying to use to log in to file sharing from the connect as box in Finder. Same result both ways. Password rejected/password input box shakes.
Yep. That was the test.
Launch Console.app from Applications > Utilities on the target Mac, and then see if there are any messages logged when the incoming Finder connection to that target Mac fails. (Please don't post more than a dozen or two lines and definitely please don't dump hundreds of lines of console output here. Remove repeating blocks, and — if you do post that data here — please check for any confidential or sensitive information before posting it.)
Also, if there are any add-on "anti-malware" or "anti-virus" tools, or I/O "enhancement" tools, or tools that claim to "optimize", "protect", "clean" or "tweak" your Mac, please remove all of those. Use the tool-specific procedures to remove those. If you're not sure, download and run and post the output from Etrecheck, and we'll have a look at the software configuration. (Etrecheck also tries not to display anything sensitive, but do review that output before posting it here.)

Troublie with File Sharing and Other Activities between two Macs

Here's my situation. I have two Macs... a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro, both running OS X 10.5.7. They connect to the Internet wirelessly through an Apple Airport Extreme (N) Base Station. But I also have them connected to each other via Ethernet. AppleTalk is turned on, only on the Ethernet connection.
My problem is that I want to curtail all computer-to-computer communications (file sharing, Airfoil speaker connections for playing iTunes, Chronosync file synchronization, etc.) so that they ONLY occur over the Ethernet connection.
I have both computers setup so that "Ethernet" is first in the sort order for network connections. File Sharing is turned on on both computers.
But... I can tell that, sometimes, the connection between the two computers is occurring over the WiFi instead of through the Ethernet (for instance, I disconnect from the WiFi on the Mac Pro and the music playing through AirFoil stops... or Chronosync can't connect to the laptop to perform a sync).
Am I just up a creek? Or is there some way to ensure that the two computers only "see" each other over the Ethernet connection and not over the shared WiFi? I know that, with "N" speeds on the Airport Extreme (and with N-capable cards in both computers), the "speed" thing isn't that big of a deal. But when running a Chronosync synchronization where several GBs of shared files are being synched, it still puts a crimp in Internet browsing speeds, etc., if that data is going over the WiFi instead of the Ethernet.
Thanks!

Hi,
I'm not certain of this but whilst you're waiting for a more informed response here goes. OSX uses something called the "default route" which prefers the one with internet access over the order of networks you set in preferences, therefore, the default route isn't necessarily the fastest route. Without editing configuration files or using hardware or software to hard code routing routines, you'll need to switch off Airport and hence the default route will become the network created automatically by your ethernet connected Macs. Apple Talk isn't necessary.
This thread may be of interest to you:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2039622&tstart=0

File sharing between two levels of network, switch + router

i've got a network setup with a cable modem and two IPs from my ISP. i've got a basic switch hooked up to the modem, with a wireless N router plugged into the switch pulling one IP and one computer pulling the other IP. the router has 5 comps connected to it, 3wired & 2 wireless.
anyone have any idea of a way to connect to/from the one computer with the public IP from/to any of the 5 machines on the internal network?
or... to the router somehow?
most of the machines are intel macs, and i've got dual boot OSX/XP on most, so suggestions for either OS would be helpful

On the Mac that you want to share, turn on File Sharing in +System Preferences > Sharing+
Also make sure that your firewall is not blocking incoming connections. Check this in +System Prefs > Security > Firewall > Advanced+
Then you should be able to log on from another Mac by doing +Go > Connect to Server > Browse+ This will enable you to log on to the Mac whose file sharing is turned on.
If you want +both Macs+ to share their files, and allow each Mac to log on to the other, then you have to turn on File Sharing and check your firewall settings on both Macs

Can I create a wireless LAN and file sharing between two household Macs?

I've got an iMac G5 running 10.4.11 and an Intel iMac running 10.5 and was wondering if I create a wireless Local Area Network and file sharing between my two household Macs?

I have a network set up for my mom using an old blue iMac with an airport card as the base station. I'm using Tiger on the machine, but you should be able to do this on Leopard, too. She's 700 miles away, and I did it quite a while ago, but it seems I set everything up using the Airport Utility. At one point I think I had Internet Sharing on, too, but I don't remember if that's still on. Haven't needed to use file sharing on the network, but my G4 and her boyfriends MacPro happily use the network via Airport. I'm guessing you could share files that way. If it doesn't work, an Airport Express is a less expensive option for the router, at least cheaper than an Extreme.

Is there a way to force a file sharing user to log out?

I have a problem: I've got a few more Macs in my office that need to connect to my computer from time to time via file sharing than OS X Snow Leopard wants to allow. I know Apple wants me to use OS X Server but I don't want to lose the simplicity of my normal workflow. Part of the problem is that users are not logged out unless they manually close the file share, which means that, say, a laptop that's asleep will still be taking up one "file sharing user slow" even though it's not needed. I can see who is logged in via the command
set theUsers to do shell script "netstat -na | awk '/.548/ {print $5}'"
but want I need to know is, is there any way to force, say, user 192.168.1.8.50244 off of my file share without stopping and restarting file sharing, which logs everyone out (and breaks some of my scripts on other computers.
Any help would be appreciated.

You could start with this hint and go from there...
[Command Line Kung Fu #63|http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/10/episode-63-death-to-users.html]

File Sharing on a Network and it only works one way

I recently configured a new wireless network, and want to fileshare between my Mac and old PC. I have followed several tutorials, and I can read/write to the Mac from the PC. However, when I try to connect to the PC from the Mac, it asks for username and password. I type in the only user name and password setup on the PC, and it says I do not have access to that server. Any ideas?

There is a "Server" service, and it is running on the laptop. The file I needed to move was ~150GB - wifi would be faster than OneDrive. You can appreciate my desire for full gigabit speed :)
I can connect to the laptop from the desktop over wifi. So the functionality of sharing is all there for me. But I am completely unable to set the wired network's location to "Private", which essentially enables Windows Firewall rules under the hood that
block any file sharing connections.
I can manually edit the firewall rules, but these apply only to network location profiles, i.e. "Domain", "Public", "Private", or "All".
I'll post a few screenshots to try and make this more clear.
Here is my wifi connection. Highlighted in red you can see the option to enable file sharing. Prett slick.
Here is a screenshot of my wired connection. As you can see, the option to enable sharing is completely missing.
The only explanation I can come up with for this is that it is an "Unidentified network", however on the other end of the cable is a desktop with the same connection settings running the same OS with the same updates and on that machine the network is set
to "Private" and has file sharing enabled. The option to enable or disable file sharing does not appear on the desktop either. The only difference between the two is that the network was enabled on the desktop prior to updating to Windows 8.1 (from Windows
8), the laptop had Windows 8.1 clean installed.

File Sharing Only One-Way Now Since Soft Crash

Greetings!
Several months ago my 1.25 10.4.11 eMac suffered not a physical hard drive crash but some kind of software crash that scrambled directories. Disk Warrior made the system functional again, save an occasional prefs or cookie glitch caused by a .plist file or cookie file's permissions having been re-set by the crash as "no access" or "no read-write" or even no admin or system or user name access at all (such that Safari wouldn't take new cookies since the crash date) which I fix by re-setting read-write to my user name access and admin as secondary access.
I mention this because since the crash it seems that File Sharing on my eMac side is corrupted. I use ethernet to link my eMac with my 900mHz 10.4.11 iBook and prior the crash I could open each other's HD icon on another's desktop without a problem, but now I can only access my iBook's HD icon on my eMac but not the other way around. Actually my eMac's HD icon does appear on my iBook's desktop before the connection's broken after a few seconds, and my eMac's Sharing panel suddenly "ghosts" the Personal File Sharing listing and states "Personal File Sharing Is Turning On" when it's actually broken off.
I've done the works from changing locations to wearing Onyx and Dusk Utility out trying to remedy this but no go. I highly suspect that some critical file sharing files in my eMac may've had their permissions turned off like other .plist files were, but if so, I don't know which files are File Sharing related to check this out if indeed they're responsible. If anyone can point these out for me it might be half the battle won.
Any assistance would be welcome!
James Greenidge

I hesitate to jump in because I am running OS 10.5.6, rather than 10.4.x ... but the a guy over in the Leopard discussions simply advised me to search the archives for a solution to my problem and the search led me here.
Sharing seems to be broken on my Mac. The finder disappears whenever I try to set 'sharing' for a folder.
The problem that James had with his machine seemed similar and I was prepared to delete the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist, as suggested by BDAqua. But I DON'T HAVE such a file !! Hmmmmm.
There is one more thing that might be pertinent. I repaired permissions with DISK UTILITY a couple of times after each time Finder disappears and always receive the same ominous message that the following SUID files had been modified and will not be repaired;
- System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpLoad
- usr/bin/setregion
- System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner
- System/Library/Printers/IOMs/LPRIOM.plugin/Contents/MacOS/LPRIOMHelper
I have no idea what that is all about.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
DICK

Remote File Sharing via SSH-How to Set This Up the Easy Way

So, I have been trying to gain access to my office iMac from my MacbookPro at home via the "interwebs" but keep getting the same issue...can not connect. I have read umpteen forums and threads. All give similar advice or are too technical to follow. I thought we made it work yesterday by installing Macfusion. That works just fine if the Mac is on. It will not wake a sleeping Mac. Here is my settup.
Home (MBP running 10.6)
Network (Timecapsule)
Office (27in iMac running 10.6).
I do have a static IP for the router.
Here is what I want to do. Access my "sleeping" iMac from a different network via Connect Server for File Sharing. I have all the appropriate file sharing buttons checked. I can access TC using the static IP but that's as far as it goes.
Is there a simple "Mac way" of doing this?
Sincerely,
Jim.
Ps. I am happy to invest in a trusted third-party software that will "ping" the network to wake my Mac unlike Macfusion which connects only to a running Mac.

Also check in System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Wake for network access is ticked

I accidentally added two .doc files, they show in iTunes file sharing, but don't show on iPad?

I accidentally added two .doc files by dragging and dropping into itunes, under my device, then the app tab, then file sharing for Adobe Reader, they show in iTunes file sharing window, but don't show on iPad 3, and I cannot delete them on iTunes screen? Please help!

First, I would advise you to apply Tao philosophy to this. Given the dysfunction of most software, if this was just an accidental copy and you don't want them on iPad and they are not showing up anyway, what's the problem? Forget it. It's not worth the hassles. I'm more concerned that you have psychological issues you need to be dealing with, not this. You are making much too unnecessary work and stress for yourself.
As for deleting them, I'm assuming you highlighted them and hit delete and it didn't work. If not, it should. Works for me. But if it doesn't, my advice is also not to worry about it, as annoying as the clutter is. It will eventually resolve itself (like when your data files corrupt or your iPad crashes, LOL. (I apologize for my cynicism but I am fed up with dysfunctional software). It's not worth the hassles of trying to figure out petty issues.
As for me, I have the opposite, and very serious problem. I've got Reader on my iPad too. But I can't move the pdfs out of it and onto my laptop with iTunes' dysfunctional file sharing. I get the error "file cannot be copied because you do not have permission to see its contents." I have hundreds of pdfs on my iPad that I converted from web surfing with other programs that also don't work and I can't get them off the iPad for backup and to have a synced library I can access from both laptop and iPad.
I called iTunes twice and both times they blamed it on the app, saying iTunes file sharing doesn't support third party apps and that I should call Adobe and talk them into writing the code that will work with iTunes. Yeah, right. And Reader is not the only problem. This is happening with iAnnotate and Write PDF and other apps.
I suspect that both of us have the root problem, perhaps Apple's greedy refusal to support the apps that it sells in the app store and are quasi-integrated enough to show up in the file sharing documents list, but can't be moved or deleted; and the apps that don't bother to make their apps fully work with iTunes file sharing.
If anyone has any solutions ......

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