How to Combine Facebook Accounts
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Pusahma satu
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Monday, September 24, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or various other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Unfortunately, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How to Combine Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually defined formerly. This procedure could take some time and also the archive will certainly work as a very little back-up, must you make a decision to shut down or remove your account. It won't be of great aid in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your information and also obtain a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first page. In addition locate where it claims You could additionally Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will need patience. Depending upon just how big your primary and your increased archive are and also how many various other archives are in the queue, this can take a while. And also with that said I indicate a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal photos are supposed to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this procedure an additional back-up, it is also a great deal faster and may offer you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't be able to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any supported third party account (CSV files are additionally sustained) through the Locate Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate article on how to back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just call info of friends that have actually agreed to have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no chance to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or make use of 3rd party devices. Now, the archive merely works as an individual backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload pictures you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had good news, yet as I stated in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a lot! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of blog posts or pictures you were identified in, locations you explored, all the Likes you released or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also any other documents you built up in time. Your pictures as well as friends are actually all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
When you have taken care of admin functions, have actually downloaded all your Data, and also make certain you intend to totally eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as see the Delete My Account web page to start the procedure. We have actually previously clarified How you can Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, ought to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever planned to supply a bring back attribute; rather they were legitimately required to use a way for customers to download their Data. As a result, customers are left with nothing but half-baked options or uncomfortable workarounds, should they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you needed to move to a brand-new Facebook account?