#installed mint alongside windows and now i dont want windows anymore

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trail granite
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deleted all the partitions related to windows and tried to remove windwos boot manager multiple times but it sill boots straight to windows boot manager and the only way i can boot into mint is by using the boot menu

visual lagoon
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ok open up the Disks application. select the drive with Mint.

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if you're on Discord there, in the installed environment, use alt-shift-prnt to do windowed screenshots and share here.

visual lagoon
trail granite
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give me a sec

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i have to upload through imgur because my upload will just fail if i try to do it through discord

visual lagoon
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try again on here

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in main newbs aren't allowed to put pics

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simply drag the picture onto this message

trail granite
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yeah the upload is stuck at processing

visual lagoon
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did u do it like I said with keyboard?

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that results in a small file, unlike many cameras these days

trail granite
visual lagoon
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alright .. if it's still stuck, use imgur

trail granite
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here it is

eternal patio
trail granite
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visual lagoon
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well the layout is tidy n simple. that's good

trail granite
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dont have it give me a sec

eternal patio
visual lagoon
trail granite
visual lagoon
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it all boots, except can't set the boot priority, and Win Boot Mgr. insists on sticking around, and being first

eternal patio
visual lagoon
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ok hang on @trail granite

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all looks good in those two pictures.

trail granite
visual lagoon
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I'm gonna see if that tutorial can work if we go step by step

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trail granite
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sry if the tags are misleading i didnt really know what to put there

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trail granite
eternal patio
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I’m thinking

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Ig if the extra 5 or so gb for boot loader isn’t an issue storage wise the easiest solution is to just set default boot in bios

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My idea, but stunner is good at this stuff

visual lagoon
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I'm right at the timestamp here.

trail granite
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yeah i watched that

visual lagoon
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go to the set time

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type sudo efibootmgr and show everything on screen

eternal patio
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I mean… my laptop literally has a drive that idles at 96c

trail granite
eternal patio
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I’m not that good at this stuff

visual lagoon
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trail granite
visual lagoon
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ok @trail granite You see the results.. very top shows booted from 0003 (ur current install)

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let me forward the video a bit

eternal patio
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I’m trying

trail granite
eternal patio
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sudo apt purge windows jkjk

visual lagoon
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ok so the command to put is as follows:

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sudo efibootmgr -b 2 -B

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since windows is the list number 0002

trail granite
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done

visual lagoon
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do that @trail granite

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visual lagoon
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ok.. next we'll see to do with the ORDER

visual lagoon
eternal patio
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He got that recursive windows boot man or sumn

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It just has more

visual lagoon
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ok just to confirm @trail granite press the up arrow, the last command will come up.. then delete the flags, just so as to run efibootmgr command again.. and that will let u verify that the entry is gone

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then show a pic

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i wanna see what numbers lie where

trail granite
visual lagoon
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ty

eternal patio
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I also am curious what the new order is after windows got nuked

trail granite
visual lagoon
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i can tell

eternal patio
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I think Ubuntu boot loader is gonna be first boot after a usb stick if one inserted

visual lagoon
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now just have to change the boot order

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cuz i suspect the legacy ones will TRY and go, then u'll get messed again

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visual lagoon
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yeah the one that's labelled 0003 is the current running session, THAT ubuntu one must be put to the very first.

eternal patio
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I recommend usb stick #1 then Ubuntu #2

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Imho

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That’s me tho

visual lagoon
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@trail granite type efibootmgr -h to get a help printout and see if a command flag there shows how to sort the ORDER

trail granite
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its --bootorder i think

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trail granite
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-o | --bootorder XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ,... explicitly set BootOrder (hex)

visual lagoon
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ahh ok.. then set that up.. use all 4 digits. follow the convention if it uses commas, then u use commas... if it's just spaces, just put spaces.. bottom line: 0003 must be first

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ok so sudo efibootmgr -o 0003, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx

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sorry no spaces after commas!!

trail granite
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what do i put for the other ones

visual lagoon
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let me check pic

eternal patio
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I’d reccomend usb stick as 2nd one in case you end up bricking your bootloader

visual lagoon
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2nd one should be 2001

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for the UEFI USB

trail granite
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visual lagoon
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then 0001 for notbook HDD

trail granite
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okay

visual lagoon
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then 3002 for the last.. screw network boot.

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so just 0003,2001,0001,3002

trail granite
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itsarian@trail granite-laptop:~$ sudo efibootmgr -o 0003,2001,0001,3002

visual lagoon
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that's it

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after it completes, just arrow up, and just run command again without any flags, to view the updated order

trail granite
visual lagoon
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ok, safely eject your USB drive now

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then sudo reboot in terminal, or do it from the start menu

trail granite
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i dont have any usb devices connected

visual lagoon
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fine

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it should work..

trail granite
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booted into windows boot manager again

visual lagoon
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eww

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press ctrl-alt-del to restart, then enter BIOS settings.. turn off legacy

trail granite
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same thing

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visual lagoon
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dang

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i was pretty confident we had it licked.

trail granite
visual lagoon
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ok boot live usb

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uefi mode

trail granite
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wait

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hard dive (uefi) lexar usb flash drive right?

visual lagoon
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yes

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if that indeed is brand of ur flash usb

trail granite
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im in the desktop

visual lagoon
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ok open nemo

trail granite
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done

visual lagoon
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open disks app

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click the drive and the fat32 ptn

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then click play button

trail granite
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done

visual lagoon
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it mounted right?

trail granite
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yeah

visual lagoon
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wat it say in info for "mounted at"?

trail granite
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it says /media/mint/D086-7BC4

visual lagoon
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ok in nemo, right click space

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then open as root

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then enter for password

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if any asked

trail granite
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didnt ask

visual lagoon
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then go to that exact location

trail granite
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mhm

visual lagoon
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see if any microsoft folders

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in it or in deeper

trail granite
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i have 2 folders: efi and boot

visual lagoon
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check in each

trail granite
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microsoft foldeer is in efi

visual lagoon
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delete any MS ones

trail granite
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i have an hp one too

visual lagoon
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what's in it?

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don't go trigger happy now

trail granite
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BIOS, BIOSupdate, systemdiags

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prob shouldnt touch that

visual lagoon
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see in BIOS folder

trail granite
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bkpbootx64.efi bootx64.efi fbx64.efi mmx64.efi

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oh bios folder of the hp folder?

visual lagoon
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ok. just back out a few.. check thoroughly if any other MS ones.. if not.. just reboot.

trail granite
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cant i just search for microsoft

visual lagoon
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it should skip the usb drive automaticlly, and boot the ubuntu thing and start mint

visual lagoon
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from /media/mint/D086-7BC4

trail granite
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nope nothing

visual lagoon
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i think we're good.. have another quick look thru the first two subfolders urself

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then try a reboot

trail granite
visual lagoon
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worked?

trail granite
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yeah

visual lagoon
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alright good. there u go then

trail granite
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tysm man

eternal patio
visual lagoon
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if u ever need to boot USB, just remember the boot-menu key to bring up temp boot devices up

visual lagoon
trail granite
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this has been bugging me since i installed mint

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visual lagoon
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pity the darn bootmanger thing in terminal didn't cleanse it.. hopefully it remembered the order at least.. and now u know how to check, @trail granite

trail granite
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windows is still in the grub manager

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visual lagoon
trail granite
trail granite
visual lagoon
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just need to os-prob and update grub now.. pretty sure Boot repair will do that for u, without resorting to doing CLI commands

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make sure ur able to boot up the UEFI USB.

trail granite
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alright

trail granite
visual lagoon
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pretty sure the boot repair will autohide menu in its summary.. if not, it should at least rewrite the stuff

trail granite
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my lap is being melted

visual lagoon
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take a break idk

trail granite
visual lagoon
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yupp

trail granite
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reinstall grub of sda4
additianal repair: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file restore-efi backups

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yep its gone

visual lagoon
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just check with lsblk that sda4 is your linux partition or the fat2 one

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or with DISKS

trail granite
visual lagoon
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yeah u can prob go into advance repair settings, and dial the timer down to a couple seconds if u want.

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I think.

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then do the repair.

trail granite
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isnt grub supposesd to show up only if i hold shift?

trail granite
visual lagoon
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yeah but this was a dual boot earlier.. idk see now how it goes.

trail granite
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whats the reason behind 2 ubuntus being in the boot menu?

visual lagoon
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im gonna wild guess one is legacy-compliant, the other is uefi.. i noticed different capitalization used

trail granite
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could be

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thanks for helping me man

visual lagoon
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in case u wanna put the timer lower, or hide it.. change where it says 'menu' to hidden

trail granite
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think im done with this ticket

visual lagoon
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ok mark it solved plz

trail granite
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byebye