Lately my Gmail has been taking forever to load. Think this has happened
before. Any thoughts on causes or cures? Is this likely due to having too
many emails, even though only using about 10% of the total alloted?
Thanks
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I use Gmail and download the messages to my computer using POP and read
with Eudora. Most of the time I get attachments just fine, and I have
been doing this successfully for over a decade with various mail hosts.
But for some reason I do not get
I use Gmail and download the messages to my computer using POP and
read with Eudora. Most of the time I get attachments just fine, and I
have been doing this successfully for over a decade with various mail
hosts. But for some reason I do not get the attachments downloaded
from Gmail with the
Few will see your post here at the old address...
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Thanks Jennifer,
I imagine this will take care of the issue... and must have been what I
remember seeing something about.
Not necessary with normal email servers but Google's seems to keep track
of which mails were accessed ... and doesn't dish them out again ...
even if they weren't
I may misunderstand you, but are you looking for the Gmail recent
mode? See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=47948
--Using POP on multiple clients or mobile devices
Jennifer Hiebert
On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:42 AM, db wrote:
Yes... there is something going on...
On Sep 9, 2009, at 8:26 PM, MrMike6by9 wrote:
I guess I don't get it. I sent a msg to myself and it immediately
appeared in my inbox with the from as me. And, of course, I have an
outbound copy of that msg in my sent folder.
Have you read through the email headers to see how it was routed?
Gmail won't let you email a message to yourself for reasons of testing
or forwarding / transferring from the webmail to a computer running a
client that receives Gmail etc.
Apparently it decides you already have that email so doesn't send it.
Is there any way to defeat that ... turn that
Well, I may not understand your problem, but I just sent an email from my
gmail account to my gmail account and it came through with no problem. I
frequently do this for web links/info that I want to be available on
different computers.
I also have a group that I email to from my gmail account
Pretty tricky, eh? For testing, I use a different account e.g.
Yahoogmail works fine. Not something that has to be done often,
fortunately.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM, dbdb...@att.net wrote:
Gmail won't let you email a message to yourself for reasons of testing or
forwarding / transferring
So, you can't send gmail to gmail with the same account? I have no trouble
doing that.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty tricky, eh? For testing, I use a different account e.g.
Yahoogmail works fine. Not something that has to be done often,
fortunately.
No I can't I can send it but I think what it does is it doesn't bother
to send it externally or whatever so my external non-web based client
can't poll for it and pick it up.
What the problem is exactly is if I pick up my email from my PDA client
email (SnapperMail) ... which is set to not
The same for me. If I start a C-Guys email, it won't show up until
someone replies to the message. Makes me doubt whether it ever went
out...
It would be nice to be able to get rid of this feature
Richard P.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
Gmail won't let you email a
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:44 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
No I can't I can send it but I think what it does is it doesn't bother to
send it externally or whatever so my external non-web based client can't
poll for it and pick it up.
What the problem is exactly is if I pick up my email from my
This feature was bought home for me when I noticed a problem with mail
being forwarded from a webhost. It's been over a year so I don't
remember the details. But I kept sending myself emails and they
wouldn't show up. Tech support would log in and said they showed up
fine for them. Eventually I
What exactly is the feature? How does it work?
Maybe if we understood that we could find a solution...
It seems to recognize its own user's email and alter its behavior.
Thinks its helping you but its not...
db
Richard P. wrote:
The same for me. If I start a C-Guys email, it won't show up
POP Gmail accounts in Tbird
But it's on the Gmail server that the phenomenon is happening. my
forwarded gmails never get sent to Tbird from Gmail because as far as
the server is concerned it is sending to itself and it decides that
makes no sense and doesn't bother or something...
From: Richard P. richs...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Gmail question...
The same for me. If I start a C-Guys email, it won't show up until
someone replies to the message. Makes me doubt whether it ever went
out...
It would be nice to be able to get rid of this feature
Richard P.
On Wed,
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
POP Gmail accounts in Tbird
But it's on the Gmail server that the phenomenon is happening. my
forwarded gmails never get sent to Tbird from Gmail because as far as the
server is concerned it is sending to itself and it decides that
Now that you are all talking about this, I realized I've had problems
with it too. I can send an email from my gmail acct to my gmail
account all from Apple Mail with no problem. But if I send that
message out and happen to check my mail on my laptop instead of the
desk computer, I can
Yes... there is something going on... intentionally by design I think.
And it keeps me from doing things I occasionally want to / need to do.
If I knew what it was... that might be the first part of a fix/ workaround.
db
Paula Minor wrote:
Now that you are all talking about this, I realized
Seems like a travel vault would be an automatic first target for hacking by
passport
and identity forgers... and that Lonely Planet would not have the type and
quality of IT staff
or expertise to stay ahead of them...
But they don't run it themselves and you can't find it.
On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Art Clemons wrote:
Actually if you download your mail from Gmail automatically via IMAP,
you can have a locally available copy of all your mail. In fact if
Gmail is set to allow you to work offline, you also can have a locally
available copy of all your email via
On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
I always wonder what people do to corrupt their pst files. I have
about 100
people archiving their email into network based psts in Outlook,
some multi
GB, and have near zero corruption issues.
The reason you see so few M$ problems is that
Ditto for Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and many others. My main concern
is that email storage be in a robust format that does not put
everything in one huge file. These formats are especially sweet to
use in conjunction with Time Machine backup. You never have to worry
about lost mail. The only
I would certainly trust Google more than Outlook. I frequently get
calls about corrupt email database files and when those go it is
highly probable that you can kiss your saved emails goodbye. Google
may have a temporary slowdown or outage, but I don't know of anyone
who has lost all their
Yes, I trust Google to store my stuff. And Amazon. I may store other
stuff with MS when they start offering the service.
In a separate thread, please tell us about your own redundant backup
strategy and why it's better than cloud storage.
I wouldn't trust any free online company to store my
I wouldn't trust any free online company to store my important data. I've
been burned many times by making that foolish assumption. I'll never do that
again. There are storage companies that do primarily storage at a reasonable
price and do it well, but it would never be my only backup.
Yes, for me (not a geek) it musta been server issues, and thus proof google
runs more than 1 server (duh) and the ones who had trouble were on it ...I
can't believe people who know little about computerdom (myself 1) know THAT
little...
-Original Message-
From: phartz...@gmail.com
Betty,
I was curious and could not find a Lonely Planet vault on Lonely Planet
although I found references to it.
Also I am curious as to why you feel that Lonely Planet vault is more
reliable than the services of a company like Amazon S3 or Mozy/EMC who
have a major professional stake in
More on this GMail issue. Almost all areas on the Google site can
be reached, such as Google Earth, Google Books, Google Finance, but
other areas, such as Google Calendar, Google Documents, Google Reader,
and of course, Google GMail cannot be accessed. My browser pops up
the window
I see on the Google Blog that others are having this current
Unable to connect problem with GMail. This problem also surfaced
back in March, in May and earlier in July, as well as numerous other
times in the past.
I'll just wait and be patient. This only causes a problem for
using
Finally, a confirmation that GMail is, yet again, failing its
users. Of course, Google will not post any info on this new breakdown
on their site so that users can ascertain why they are having
problems. At least now, thanks to a third party, I know why I cannot
use my browser to
Golly... Two WHOLE hours???
Sent from my iPod
On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Steve Rigby phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Finally, a confirmation that GMail is, yet again, failing its
users. Of course, Google will not post any info on this new
breakdown on their site so that users can ascertain
This would have never happened if it were still in beta.
Golly... Two WHOLE hours???
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As of 1:50 pm, EDT, GMail is suddenly just as inexplicably
accessible by my browser as it became inaccessible yesterday. I'll
see later if Google even so much as acknowledges that a problem
existed in the first place and explains anything at all about it. I
seriously doubt they will say
The article you quoted is dated March 10, 2009. Old news.
FWIW, I haven't noticed any problems with the gmail web interface. And
I have mine open in a Firefox tab all day long.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Steve Rigbyphartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Finally, a confirmation that GMail is, yet
Is the problem online only? Can you get your mail using POP or IMAP?
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, b_s-wilkb1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Is the problem online only? Can you get your mail using POP or IMAP?
I was able to use POP. That was the saving grace in the matter.
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That's for sure...I get my gmail in my outlook and I have many archives
...just yesterday I had to go get some tax records for 2007 ...easy as pie
...just looked in some archives and there it was ...saved my ...well, you
know ...but really ...do you wanna trust google to store your stuff?
Yes, I trust Google to store my stuff. And Amazon. I may store other
stuff with MS when they start offering the service.
In a separate thread, please tell us about your own redundant backup
strategy and why it's better than cloud storage.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM,
On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:06 PM, rleesimon wrote:
That's for sure...I get my gmail in my outlook and I have many
archives
...just yesterday I had to go get some tax records for 2007 ...easy
as pie
...just looked in some archives and there it was ...saved
my ...well, you
know ...but really
I cannot get onto GMail via browser to access my account. Another
computer will also not connect to GMail either, not even to access
GMail in order to set up a new account or to read about the virtues of
GMail. Another computer can access Gmail with a browser. Strange,
but I see that
Try clearing your Google cookies, then retry accessing your account. Had
this problem yesterday and found that solution.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Steve Rigby phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot get onto GMail via browser to access my account. Another
computer will also not connect
On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Bill wrote:
Try clearing your Google cookies, then retry accessing your
account. Had
this problem yesterday and found that solution.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no go. Did not work for me.
Browser still sez cannot connect to server.
Steve
Try different DNS.
On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Bill wrote:
Try clearing your Google cookies, then retry accessing your account. Had
this problem yesterday and found that solution.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no go. Did not work for me. Browser still sez
cannot connect to server.
Aaaah, thank-you. I thought it was in the character encoding but I had
forgotten how easy it was to switch it. Clicking on unicode did the trick.
betty wrote:
I don't know if my computer isn't displaying this stuff right or what
but these symbols
and foreign language puncuation don't look like
You are only the second person from the list flagged as SPAM by gMail in my
email since August 2004.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:19 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Richard P. richs...@gmail.com escribió:
Betty, is that you or are you somebody else now???
Sometimes email programs are
On Jul 19, 2009, at 9:35 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
You are only the second person from the list flagged as SPAM by
gMail in my
email since August 2004.
Spam status is usually awarded by accumulating negative points. I bet
that the use of certain words in the email and the inclusion of a
b_s-wilk wrote:
Yes, it's me, even when I send email from Spanish or UK servers or the
United Transnational Republics, even when it's uʍop ǝpısdn.
Betty
How do you make text appear upside down?
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-Original Message-
From: John Duncan Yoyo [mailto:johnduncany...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: GMail Warning about Betty's Post
You are only the second person from the list flagged as SPAM by gMail in my
email since
I don't know if my computer isn't displaying this stuff right or what
but these symbols and foreign language puncuation don't look like upside
down letters to me. Ê Çı
This site will flip text over for you:
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html
Robert Carroll wrote:
b_s-wilk wrote:
Yes, it's
It doesn't look right on a BlackBerry either.
On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Jordan wrote:
I don't know if my computer isn't displaying this stuff right or
what but these symbols and foreign language puncuation don't look
like upside down letters to me. Ê Çı
There's something seemingly quite dangerous about Betty ...dont'cha think?
...that must be it!
-Original Message-
From: t.piwowar [mailto:t...@tjpa.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: GMail Warning about Betty's Post
It doesn't look right on a BlackBerry either.
On
I don't know if my computer isn't displaying this stuff right or what but these
symbols
and foreign language puncuation don't look like upside down letters to me. �
�ı
It could depend on the character encoding you set. I have mine set to ISO 8859-1 on this
MacBook. Also works in Unicode.
b_s-wilk
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show details 1:40 PM (1 hour ago)
Gmail sent Betty's post right to spam and when I recovered it, GMail
gave this warning:
Follow up message
Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
following any links in it or of
If we're taking a head count, I got the notice too. Mine was in Spam,
but clearly marked with a Cguys tag, so it was easily spotted.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Richard P.richs...@gmail.com wrote:
b_s-wilk
to COMPUTERGUYS-L
show details 1:40 PM (1 hour ago)
Gmail sent Betty's post
Richard P. richs...@gmail.com escribió:
Betty, is that you or are you somebody else now???
Sometimes email programs are set to mark all foreign email as spam. My
email is in Spain, some servers in the UK. The comment about semi-nude
sales people in MS stores might have sent it your spam
Gmail labels are created in SettingsLabels. Or, if you have them
displayed on the sidebar, just click edit labels.
The trick to remember with Gmail is to set a filter for the new label:
Matches: subject:([CGUYS])
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label Cguys
If you skip the inbox, it works more like
In today's Windows Secrets article:
http://WindowsSecrets.com/comp/090423
It looks like online storage isn't as safe as it's cracked up to be.
Richard P.
Gmail accounts hacked via unpatched hole
Scott Spanbauer By Scott Spanbauer
Exploits allowing hackers to break into Gmail accounts are
Well this is interesting. I tried importing the ICS into Google Calendar,
but it seemed nothing was showing. I also put a Calendar gadget on my gmail
screen.
This morning, the event is displayed (unfortunately, of 2 events, I seem to
have imported one of them twice rather than each once, but it
OK, went back and imported the other event. Showed up right away this time.
Also, the whole interaction seemed more intuitive. I suspect Google did
some bug fixing overnight.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.comwrote:
Well this is interesting. I tried
Oh, I'm not sure that's the lesson here. Anyone with a great need for
security already understands hacks like XSS and CSRF. Throwing out the
baby with the bathwater and going back to POP or IMAP is hardly a
solution. Like suggesting that because cars are dangerous we should
all go back to horses.
I have not used Google calendar before today. Today I got some e-mails
showing the add to calendar link. I wanted to take advantage of this, so
I logged in to Google calendar, then in gmail, clicked the add to calendar
link. Instead of creating an entry in Google calendar, it simply downloaded
You're not alone. This happened to me last week and I just brushed it
off and added the event manually. Today I did a bit of searching, but
found no solutions.
The iCalendar format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
How it's _supposed_ to work:
Well, I think I might know what's going on. The add to calendar link in
this case is really a button included in the HTML formatted e-mail whose
purpose it is to download the ICS file.
If that makes any sense.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
You're not alone.
Interesting. The .ics is a native calendar format for a variety of
calendar apps. I used several .ics files last week when I transferred my
calendar entries to my new iMac, and when I updated the online calendar
links in iCal.
It's easy to import. For one of the calendars I just dragged the
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP
are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that
can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the
cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a
historical perspective; I
Tell grandpa his email client is just fine.
Gramps appreciates the vote of support, but are you sure GMail has an
IMAP server behind it? Recall that they tacked on IMAP support later. I
think GMail has a custom database behind it.
Google was broken for a while this morning:
http://tinyurl.com/brkao8
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Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed?
Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper
right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download
my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while
offline. When killing the internet, it
How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ?
-Original Message-
From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: gmail offline
Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed?
Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in
I suspected that would be the case. I am using gmail as I changed providers
after over 10 years with att dialup and don't want to go through that again
...I considered yahoo but settled on gmail as it seemed likely to have
longevity ...I am using pop and outlook ...the heck with their scheme
Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] escribió:
Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed?
Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right
before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail,
which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP
are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that
can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the
cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a
historical perspective; I
maybe your boss is gonna read your quips on this board while you hang out at
the water cooler !!
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090130/tc_zd/236556
-Original Message-
From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:49 PM
To: rleesimon
Subject: Re: gmail offline
recently, I switched from ATT dialup to cable internet much faster via
Comcast. As a result, my ATT email addresses are going, going, gone
...soon. I looked at yahoo and others and settled on gmail. I like it and
have setup outlookXP2002 to get my gmail... I also, set gmail to POP and to
erase
POP is really archaic, IMAP has greater functionality. Using IMAP,
there should be no need to erase the gmail when downloading. Seems to
contradict the principle of maintaining multiple copies.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM, RLeeSimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
recently, I switched from ATT
To actually answer your question about IMAP. It is a protocol that allows
synchronization of email across multiple clients, such as outlook, and the
web-based interface. I use IMAP on my PDA and my desktop at home.
although, I have to admit, I don't use it that much at home anymore. Once
you
That's interesting. Earlier this week a cguys thread went off-list and
I assumed she had done that on purpose, though I couldn't figure out
why. Now I'm wondering.
But it couldn't have been iGoogle here, as I use permatab in Firefox
to keep Gmail open, and only visit iGoogle infrequently as it's
Not here. Oddly, gmail is flagged as a typo, and so is Gmail. Neither
recommend the other.
Perhaps I manually added Thunderbird to my dictionary.? I don't type it often.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting side-note: Gmail regards 'Thunderbird'
Correct. But for people coming from the Dark Ages of Eudora or (gasp)
Outlook, we just don't believe our email *worked* unless we actually
see our own returned email from the list. Yes, this means you have two
copies. Yes, it's inefficient. And yes, I've gotten used to doing it
the new way.
I
I've been using gmail for years and it's now my main app for the largest
percentage of my mail so I guess I don't see what the problem is. But, then
again, I subscribe to the List by Digest which is much handier for me since
I don't have to deal with bunchs of individuals msgs.
YMMV
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I'm as
Are you new to gmail? I hate this feature too and wish they gave us
the _option_ to see our own replies. But I gotta admit I'm getting
used to it.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My posts don't seem to get through lately. Would someone please just
comment if
Exactly! Yes I'm relatively new. It's frustrating to have to go to my
gmail inbox on the web to see if the post made it.
There are lots of convenience advantages for me though.
Tony B wrote:
Are you new to gmail? I hate this feature too and wish they gave us
the _option_ to see our own
It's a feature of gmail. Nothing you can do on any list will make it
work, I guess because Gmail's smarter than the lists.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, John A. Newitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 5:35 PM -0500 2/25/08, Tony B wrote:
Are you new to gmail? I hate this feature too and wish
Wait a second, as far as gmail goes.
You should see all your *replies*. Because they are automatically
associated with the conversation already there.
As for posts, it would be great if you could have filters on your sent mail,
instead of just the inbox.
The trick is that Gmail considers the
Then why can I see my own replies in gmail? I read it through the web
interface at mail.google.com.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:31 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wait a second, as far as gmail goes.
You should see all your *replies*. Because they are automatically
associated with
How can Google do that? Or why would they want to?
It so arbitrary non- digital ... one is an outgoing mail and one is
an incoming mail. They are two distinct critters with different senders
and each conveys meta data or timing info information other than what is
in the body of text.
Yeah, well, don't confuse them. First we'd like the ability to do
offline backups (and no, I don't mean emailing all my saved messages
to a POP account)!
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:33 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm surprised that the Google tech people are thinking in such fuzzy
ways...
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:02 PM, John Duncan Yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Then why can I see my own replies in gmail? I read it through the web
interface at mail.google.com.
You certainly can.
Just go to the OP and go through the conversation. Your reply will be in
there.
--
John
If you are talking about your posts to CGUYS, I don't know how to make it
stop associating your posts/replies with other replies into a
conversation.
Besides, they are still in your Sent Mail label.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool. But now my cguys label
I didn't know that was an optional label. But if I turn it off, where
is my unclassified mail going to sit? Don't even suggest All Mail
because that would be a real chore to sift through!
If you are lazy, you can still use Gmail labels like filters. Turn off the
inbox label and it isn't in
I guess I wasn't clear.
I meant that if you use a filter today with your mail client, it moves the
message out of the Inbox and into a message folder, say the CGUYS folder.
You can make it seem like the exact same thing in Gmail by setting up a
filter to put a label of CGUYS on the messages and
I'm not seeing that. There are 6 options in the filters dialog, none
of which is remove inbox label. Closest might be Skip the
Inbox(Archive it). Could that really be it?
Coming from Eudora/tbird I saw 'archiving' as something else entirely
and would never have thought to use that option without
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not seeing that. There are 6 options in the filters dialog, none
of which is remove inbox label. Closest might be Skip the
Inbox(Archive it). Could that really be it?
Coming from Eudora/tbird I saw 'archiving' as something
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