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iPhone: Transfer Pictures from iPhone to XP | Apple iPhone | Tech-Recipes

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  • PCnotMac

    4 months ago

    What about if its saying: no pictures have been found on the camera. :((( There is only one folder, default one and about 30 pictures.
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  • grh

    9 months ago

    thanks, you saved me alot of time by posting this
    saltwaterdawg if florida
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  • wismer

    9 months ago

    Hi,
    I was using the steps you metnioned above but in my case i get the following message when i try to cilck on camera and scanner option under accessories tab

    "The computer cannot detect the scanner or camera.
    Please make sure the device is turned on and is properly connected to the computer. If the computer still cannot detect the device, open Control Panel, click Sanners and Cameras, and then click Add Device."

    I have my iphone already attached and its on so I tried the second option to add the device as mentioned. But when I try to do that the wizard does not list the Manufacturer "Apple" in the list. So I have no way to add my iphone to this option.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.
    Disgruntled itunes user
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  • davak

    9 months ago

    If xp cannot see the device, this isn't going to work. Usually this is a conflict with another piece of hardware. I would try disconnecting all my usb devices, reboot, reattach the iPhone, and try again.

    XP historically has not handled USB very well... and trying to debug a poor usb connection can be painful and difficult.
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  • Uncle Russell

    7 months ago

    I had this problem. When I checked the Device Manager, it had listed the iPhone as a camera with a problem in its drivers. I tried updating the driver to no avail. What worked was to unplug my Visioneer scanner, uninstall the driver for the iPhone, and then reboot the computer. When it came back up, it recognized the iPhone.
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  • samutopia

    1 month ago

    Phew! After a while I got this working now. I could'nt find the thing listed in my device manager, in fact I did not have an imaging/camera option in there. None of these were working, then I found that in my device manager (right click my computer) there was an entry of "Apple mobile device". Once I right clicked and uninstalled the driver for that, then unplugged and put back the iphone. Sweet! Now it installed as a camera/ imaging device.

    I suspect my visioneer scanner had something to do with the conflict, as somebody else mentioned this in another post.
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  • rinn

    3 weeks ago

    I searched for HOURS before coming across this information, and it worked. THANK YOU!!!
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  • samutopia

    1 week ago

    I noticed that there is another essential step to the above instructions. iTunes needs to be on for this to work.

    Also to get to device manager, right click my computer, click on properties, select the hardware tab and select device manager. The 'Apple mobile device' was among the USB controller driver entries.
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  • mwilli2898

    8 months ago

    Thanks for this - I was puzzling over how to get my photos!!!
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  • davak

    8 months ago

    My pleasure! Thanks for visiting!
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  • OlloX3

    8 months ago

    why not just go to "my computer" then you see Apple iPhone :)
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  • Natesh

    8 months ago

    Hey This is Natesh from Singpaore

    Thanks alot for your information.

    Cheers
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  • JHW

    8 months ago

    Thanks! I could not find this simple suggestion anywhere on Apple's site.
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  • vashira

    8 months ago

    Thank you sooo much. I was having a very difficult time trying to figure out how to do this.
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  • Alex

    8 months ago

    Thanks for this info !!! Great info indeed!
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  • Michelle

    8 months ago

    my computer failed to copy any pics - the error message was:

    the following error occured while copying pictures:

    the I/O operation hes been aborted becaue of either a thread exit or an application request

    WTF?
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  • Michelle

    8 months ago

    ok now the wizard couldn't do it, but through Adobe Photoshop I was able to download 60 of about 300 pictures - all from October - why can't I download the rest of the pictures? frustrating!
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  • steve

    8 months ago

    Your guide can only transfer camera photos, and how to transfer other photos in photo albums?
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  • cristine

    7 months ago

    It worked thanks for the instruction!
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  • Anur

    7 months ago

    Thanks a Billion for that wonderful piece of info. it immediately worked.
    Wonder why even after so much research in to usability, file management is such a pain in the mobile devices of the apple stable.
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  • Gillian

    7 months ago

    fantastic
    thanks for this
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  • asdf

    7 months ago

    Thanks!
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  • rocky

    7 months ago

    THANK YOU
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  • Iphoneguru

    7 months ago

    Muppets!
    My computer > select Iphone and there they are
    DOH!
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  • praveena

    7 months ago

    hats off!!!!!! u solved my issue.
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  • j

    2 months ago

    Can't do that - it isn't there!
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  • bbaron

    7 months ago

    Thanks for helping me figure out how to download pics FROM my iPhone.
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  • Zayveeyur

    7 months ago

    Absolutely Outstanding Post. It's great! Thanks
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  • Emma

    6 months ago

    Aw nice one, can't believe i didn't think of this. Been trying to find something to transfer pics on to a PC. Found one for a mac ages ago but not an easy thing for pc, and now I find this. I had all I needed all along. Thanks again. :)
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  • Aerial

    6 months ago

    Thanks a lot! Very helpful!
    Best~
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  • RaJah

    6 months ago

    Thanks for the help! I would have never figured that out!
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  • Spaniard

    6 months ago

    Best post ever!
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  • Chris Conway

    6 months ago

    Hi, Thanks you solved the problem for me
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  • fsfsf

    6 months ago

    Thanks for your suggesting...I was breaking my head how to copy photos from my iphone..I thought itunes is smart enough to copy my pictures from iphone...
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  • John S. Ransom

    6 months ago

    Hello davak! Have I told you lately what a genius you are? How many people during the day do I meet who (a) saves me a lot of hassle and (b) saves me $30? In these difficult times, $30 is not to be wasted. If you search for something like "transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer," you get a bunch of links, surrounding yours, who assure me, no, there's no way to get your pictures off an iPhone. You can get them on, but you can't get them off. Scientists and wizards both have spent many fruitless days on this endeavor, and each time they thought they were getting close, an even more difficult, more insurmountable problem would come into view. In a joint statement, the wizards and scientists summed up their findings. "You may as well try to understand the ins and outs of the subprime mortgage scheme as figure out how to move photos from an iPhone to a desktop computer. Another good comparison would be to encrypted algorithms. In both cases, you just can't break the code. We can report with confidence that it is humanly impossible to transfer photos from an iPhone to a desktop. Period. Full stop. End of report."

    "But wait!," an authoritative web voice exclaims. "Tales have been told -- the ignorant call them myths -- about a magic software that will undo the chains apple has wrought, and deliver your lost iPhone photos to your desktop unharmed and whole, for only $30."

    And I was about to put out that money. But you, davak -- your magic is stronger!
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  • davak

    6 months ago

    Best. Thank-you post. Evar.

    :)
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  • joizi69

    6 months ago

    ok so as far as getting pictures from my camera roll. yes this works. i need to know how to get the library off. i have 225 pics on camera roll and 1600 on the library. but when i do the scanner/ camera wizard, it only allows me to pull off the pics from the camera roll.

    please help joizi69@msn.com
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  • Dean

    2 months ago

    I have 1559 photos in my library and have the same problem! Any adice would be gratefully accepted.
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  • Bchism

    6 months ago

    Yes but this doesn't allow me to get pictures that were loaded from my previous computer, only the pictures I actually took with the device. How can I get those other hundreds of pictures off the phone that were loaded from my previous (stolen) computer?
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  • HF

    4 months ago

    did you ever find a way to download your pics?
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  • Jon

    6 months ago

    I cannot get my computer to recognise the iphone.
    Itunes sees it, but not the control panel, nor the directory.
    If I go to Disk management, it is not there anymore either.
    When I plug my iphone into a USB port, no window opens asking what I would like to do.
    I am trying Windows Update Service, but not very confident.
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  • Natalia

    5 months ago

    I had the same problem. Just try to do it on a machine with no i-tunes installed. This worked for me. For some reason when i-tunes sees the iphone therew is no way for the computer to detect it (via USB port) and ask you what would you like to do with it
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  • sayuri

    5 months ago

    I have the same issue. When I first plug in my iphone, my computer did recognise it, but I clicked "cancel", and it never shows up again! tried to reboot my computer, unplug, plug in iphone, Frustrating...
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  • cellfreak

    4 months ago

    go to your desktop> right click my computer > hardware > device manager > check if iphone camera is over there. If you are unable to see it > scan for a hardware changes. It will come up with unknown device. > right click on it and choose> update driver. Allow windows to connect with windows update. This should help.
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  • j

    2 months ago

    I can be under Imaging Devices> then update the driver> reboot and it pops up. thanks everyone - I can't believe this is different on so many. The other thing that helped was the Enable Automatic Sync when iPhone is connected. Try both !!!!
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  • The Droyd

    2 months ago

    I had the same problem. Couldn't even find the iphone device under my control panel. Hard rebooting the phone just fixed the problem. My computer now recognizes it again and I can transfer photos from my phone to my computer.

    Simple solution.
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  • SJH

    5 months ago

    Oh btw, this might not be the most common cause, but if you cant see the iphone on My Computer or on Scanner and Camera Wizard, be sure that "Automaticaly sync when this iPhone is connected" option is enabled on the summary page on iTunes. I was kicking myself about that
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  • j

    2 months ago

    tried that - works! Thanks.
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  • MG

    5 months ago

    Thanks--that was a very simple solution to something that had me scratching my head.
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  • David Creed

    5 months ago

    Very helpful, Thanks!
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  • matt

    5 months ago

    Hey. I used to be able to do this, got quite a few pics off of my iphone. Recently however, I go through the same procedure, select the pics I want, get to the point where it begins the copying process and it keeps saying something like, "this photo cannot be copied" or "there was an error copying this photo." I have to click skip, but it just ends up saying the same thing for each photo. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
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  • Jenny

    5 months ago

    Thanks for the instructions - work perfectly. Really is a great service when you have to search through online to get help. - Too bad this "service" isnt so easy to obtain from apple!
    Jenny
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  • Nivas

    4 months ago

    That was simple and great Thanks a lot
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  • Larry

    4 months ago

    Thank u bro! too bad for Itunes.
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  • Heather

    4 months ago

    This worked. Thank you so much! :]
    It sure helped ALOT. Before, I had to email pictures to
    my computer one by one and it took such a long time, but this
    made my life so much easier. Again, thank you so much!
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  • Web Design

    4 months ago

    Thanks man, this small tutorial really helped me. It was so quick. I would like to add few more points.

    If you cannot see scanners and camera in the All Program. Than wait and XP will itself pop up a window asking what to do.

    From there you can choose camera and scanners, than rest is same as this tutorial.
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  • madfeline

    4 months ago

    WOW... I've been trying to figure this out
    for months! THANK YOU!!!
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  • keith

    3 months ago

    This worked great! Like a lot of other users on here, I was trying to figure out how to do this for months. The only "glitch" I had was the first time the wizard said there were no photos (of course yes, there actually were) so canceling out of the wizard and starting it again and the second time it found the photos. WOOT!! Thank you for posting this for everyone!
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  • P1570L

    3 months ago

    Dude,

    Got my iphone a while back, but the last two days have been on an all out mission to crack this nut, & then I stumbled upon this brilliant tut. Thanks a stack.

    P1570L
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  • elizabethkoh

    3 months ago

    Thanks alot for this. I almost deleted my iphone photos when I thought that i could upload my photos by syncing it with itunes.
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  • Bill

    3 months ago

    Not completely true. The must be a setting in iTunes to enable seeing the iPhone in Windows. On computers that don't have iTunes installed, I can see the iPhone. On those with iTunes installed, it never shows up.
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  • Laura

    3 months ago

    HOORAY! This is awesome. Thank you for explaining it to me! I have to go order my prints now!
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  • megan

    3 months ago

    thanks, how fantastic. you saved me loads of time!
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  • lazy

    3 months ago

    OR, you could just go to "My Computer" and click on the iPhone. Voilá, all your pictures, without downloading complicated programs.
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  • Paul Veit

    2 months ago

    How do you transfer pictures from iPhone to computer with VISTA operating System?
    I am unable to do it.
    I have an HP computer with VIsTA ULTIMATE.
    Please help
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  • Abrar

    2 months ago

    You cant delete pictures off your iphone from within Explorer! It crashes the iphone!
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  • Paulose

    2 months ago

    Super helpful. Thanks. Was wracking my head about this. And it turned out to be so simple.
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  • anupam

    2 months ago

    good one, thank you
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  • Noam

    2 months ago

    The following worked for me, I figured I would post it so it may help another.
    I tried the scanner/camera wizard - got a message to make sure the device was turned on, etc.
    Showed up just fine in device manager without driver problems, but not in My Computer.
    Couldn't figure out how to transfer from Photoshop but the help said to use Windows Image Acquisition.
    i could not find the shortcut or file to launch that program but then I remembered, that in Device Manager under Services - is Windows Image Acquisition. It was disabled. I set it to manual and started it. Sure enough the iPhone showed right up in My Computer, and I could use the original method with the camera/scanner wizard.
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  • bones24

    2 months ago

    it worked for me but the shots are sideways so every photo I have to click and turn
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  • Sarah

    2 months ago

    This is the way I was doing this, but a lot of the time I get a message "The computer cannot detect the scanner or camera. Please make sure the device is turned on and is properly connected to the computer." Other times it thinks it is busy. And sometimes it actually works.

    Once it told me there was an error with a parameter. Not sure where to look for this.

    And then about once out of 20 it will work. Mostly I upload them to another computer and put them on a flash drive or cd to move them. Real pain.


    Any idea where I shoudl check?

    Much thanks!
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  • abdul

    2 months ago

    Thank you dear!!!
    Great help!
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  • Ina

    2 months ago

    Thanks so much! This is the only useful link I got after so many searches! Now all my photos are backed up. Yay!
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  • Smmeee

    2 months ago

    I can't even connect my iphone with XP, while I have photo's on the camera reel. How do you prevent the BSOD in the first instance
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  • Santos

    2 months ago

    I have more than one album in the iphone but windows sees only one, how can I download ALL?

    Please help.
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  • Pretzel

    1 month ago

    Thank you so much, I spent ages trying to do this!
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  • kim

    1 month ago

    Thank you so much! I have been trying to get pictures transferred using Itunes, having no luck. This is a great tutorial. I now have all my pics on my computer.
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  • Jisung

    1 month ago

    Thank you so much!
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  • Srinivas

    1 month ago

    Thanks for the info. I tried to use itunes, but was not successful....
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  • Shah

    1 month ago

    Thanks mate. The tip was quite handy.
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  • Shas3

    4 weeks ago

    Thanks dude...its working...
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  • ellou

    3 weeks ago

    tnx loads :) although i found it going to my computer and clicking apple iphone!
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  • MC

    3 weeks ago

    You are ACE.
    Thanks for saving me hours.
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  • Tiara

    3 weeks ago

    Wow, you made this so simple. I found other sites telling me to download a software etc....and it didn't even work! Hats off to you :)
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  • Tom

    3 weeks ago

    didn't work - the wizard didn't recognize any devices ....
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  • Sue Z

    2 weeks ago

    Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure this out for so long. You made it so easy. Much appreciated!!!
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  • Holly

    2 weeks ago

    Bless you! That is just what I needed.
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  • Isa, Norway

    1 week ago

    Thank you so much!! I've been trying for hours to bakcup my photos!
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  • Iain

    1 week ago

    Superb, exactly what I needed to know and it worked perfectly.
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  • James

    6 days ago

    Wow. Very disappointed at Apple for the way this works (or doesn't work in some people's cases). iTunes has a "Photos" tab under the iPhone! And the choice to sync photos with it even!!! It doesn't sync anything!!! Which led me to believe something was really wrong because I know there's photos on the phone. And like someone else said, no help from Apple on this that I could find anywhere! When I connected the phone, XP was nice enough to tell me about a camera device being connected, but I kinda blew it off because I figured iTunes would take care of it. Anyways, THANKS FOR THE POST. And shame, shame, shame on Apple for this one! Extremely non-intuitive use case which is usually not like them.
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  • Cait

    3 days ago

    omg u r a total life savor thank you sooo much!<3
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  • mcn

    1 day ago

    Picasa importing the photos without a problem from my iPhone to winXP
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  • Avi

    23 hours ago

    THIS IS AWESOME, YOU ROCK!
    reply

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