People who want to close their Facebook account and leaving the Facebook service. But they need to have a backup of their Facebook account data can follow these tips to download Facebook account archive data on their computer. This archive includes status, photos, videos, wall posts and other Facebook’s contents. This archive will in form of a zip file.
This provides you a backup copy of all your Facebook account data which includes things like Facebook’s posts, timeline info, photos, messages you have shared and also includes some other things.
There is no way to select data individually from Facebook’s archive. So you need to download the whole ZIP file to discover its contents later on.
Tips To Download Facebook Account Archive Data
- Log-on to your Facebook and open Account Settings from top-right end of Facebook page
- From left side column click General
- From bottom click “Download a copy of your Facebook data“
- A new page will open to confirm that you want to download your Facebook info
- Click Start My Archive green button to continue
- A prompt will pop-up showing “It may take a little while for us to gather your photos, wall posts, messages and other information“
- Here simply click Start My Archive button
- For account security you will ask to enter your Facebook password
- A new page will open for confirmation, that system is gathering information and will send an email to you, here just click Okay
- Now check your email account for Facebook confirmation email, after which you will receive an email containing the download link
- After receiving the email click the download link and you will redirect to Facebook’s Account Settings page, click “Download a copy of your Facebook data” again click Download Archive button
- On your computer open Downloads folder and open the ZIP archive file
This backup copy of all your Facebook account data will includes things like Facebook’s posts, timeline info, photos, messages you have shared and also includes some other things.
