Combine Facebook Accounts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, condition updates, check-ins or other information, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and persistence. However, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described previously. This procedure could take some time as well as the archive will work as a minimal back-up, should you choose to shut off or remove your account. It won't be of wonderful help in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your information and obtain a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial page. On top of that find where it claims You can additionally Download an increased archive ... and also click the particular link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will need patience. Relying on exactly how huge your main and your broadened archive are and the number of various other archives are in the line, this can take a while. And also with that said I indicate a number of hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will certainly look like.
Although your personal images are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a whole lot faster as well as might give you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with information of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV documents are likewise sustained) using the Find Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a separate short article on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just call information of friends that have consented to have their email address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or use 3rd party tools. Today, the archive simply works as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You can re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add trusted get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had good information, yet as I claimed before, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will lose a lot! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including articles or pictures you were labelled in, areas you explored, all the Sorts you provided or received, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also privacy Settings, and also other documents you collected in time. Your images and friends are truly all you can take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed access to them.
Once you have looked after admin functions, have actually downloaded all your Data, and are sure you wish to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, and also check out the Remove My Account web page to kick off the process. We have formerly clarified Ways to Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never meant to give a restore function; rather they were legitimately compelled to offer a means for users to download their Data. Therefore, customers are entrusted only half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, must they want to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?