Today we are going to show you how you can backup or download your desired Facebook information and save. Your saved Facebook account information can then be access from your computer offline, where you can obtain vital information should in case you forgot your password or your account gets hacked.
It is no doubt that Facebook is the number one World's social media where people share with their family and loved ones some great moments as well as other vital information.
Many people using Facebook from our experience usually neglect their login details and are at times forced to great a new account whenever they change their computer or smartphone. Also, your account can get hacked and you are unable to access it. As a consequence, they turn to lose their vital information like messages, photos, shared videos, posts, contact information and others.
Today we are going to show you how you can backup or download your desired Facebook information and save. Your saved Facebook account information can then be access from your computer offline while you still have access to your account and knows well your password, where you can obtain vital information should in case you forgot your password or your account gets hacked.
What Facebook information can I backup?
If you are asking yourself this question, then rest assured you have the possibility of downloading all your vital Facebook information. Below is listed the information you can download from your Facebook account.
- Posts
- Photos and videos
- Comments
- Groups
- Likes and reactions
- Stories
- Friends, following and followers
- Profile information, messages, events and pages
- Your activity on the Market place, payment history, and Ads
- Apps and websites, your collections and saved items, places
- About you, search history, security login information,
Wow, how then do I do this?
If you are interested in backing or saving your Facebook account information, then below, we have provided you with the steps to follow. As we said earlier, you can download a copy of your Facebook information at any time. You can download a complete copy, or you can select only the types of information and date ranges that you want. You can choose to receive your information in an HTML format that is easy to view, or a JSON format, which could allow another service to import it more easily.
Downloading your information is a password-protected process that only you will have access to. Once your copy has been created, it will be available for download for a few days.
Here are the steps to follow;
- Log in to your Facebook account from the web browser and click the drop-down arrow at the top-right corner, then select "Settings". While in the settings page, select "Your Facebook account information", and click on "Download your information".
- Now, you will see all the available information you can download. You can choose to download all your information or select to download for a particular period, as well as choose the format to save it(HTML or JSON), and equally the quality of media files. Note that the higher the quality of media files, the larger your Facebook account details you will be downloading(This will also depend on the numbers you have).
- Once you have selected the desired backup period, format and media file quality, select what you will like to download from the list and hit the "Create file" button.
- Facebook will then start generating a downloadable zip backup for all your selected account information. Once it is ready, you will get a notification.
- To download the backup, click on "Available copies" and then click the "Download" button.
- In order to download your Facebook account details you just generated, you will need to enter your Facebook account password. Enter it and click the "Submit" button. The download will then start.
- Once the file is download, extract it and from the folder, you will find all your account information you downloaded. The folder will contain many other folders depending on what you choose while creating your backup. In each of them, you will find the HTML which you can open with your web browser(no connection is required).
Conclusion
With this feature, Facebook users can easily safeguard their information offline and access it whenever they like with having to worry about an internet connection.
To exploit this feature to its fullness, it will be advisable to create periodic backups of your Facebook account so as to always have all your desired information at hand.
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