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31st Aug 2016

This is how you can recover all your deleted photos and messages on Facebook

Alan Loughnane

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Facebook remembers all…

It will come as no surprise to many of you that Facebook keeps track of your activities online, and it even has a database where it stores all the photos, messages, statuses etc that you upload onto their site.

It’s been known to happen through error that you may accidentally delete a message or a photo from the social media site that may be your only copy of said media.

But never fear, there is a way to retrieve all those messages, photos, videos that you thought you’d deleted forever, and it’s actually quite simple.

Go into settings and click “Download a copy”…

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You will be greeted with this page, where you can select to download your archive…

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You will be prompted to enter your password, and when you do, you should receive an email with a link to download all your archive.

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A word of warning, it may contain sensitive information that you need to keep safe and secure.

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