Merge Facebook Profiles
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also perseverance. However, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take a while as well as the archive will work as a minimal backup, should you choose to shut down or delete your account. It won't be of wonderful aid in recovering any type of Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your information and obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally find where it says You could also Download a broadened archive ... and also click the particular link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly require persistence. Depending upon just how big your major as well as your increased archive are and also the number of various other archives remain in the queue, this could take a while. And also with that I mean a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will look like.
Although your very own pictures are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is likewise a great deal faster and might give you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You should manually include friends to your brand-new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are also sustained) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a different article on how to support your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just get in touch with details of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party devices. Right now, the archive simply functions as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload pictures you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including general account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on calls, or conceal your individual Settings. I wish I had good news, but as I claimed previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly shed a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed background will certainly be gone, including posts or photos you were tagged in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you provided or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, as well as other records you collected over time. Your photos and also friends are actually all you could take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will certainly shed access to them.
Once you have dealt with admin roles, have downloaded all your Data, as well as make sure you wish to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and also go to the Delete My Account web page to start the process. We have actually previously explained How To Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, needs to the account obtain endangered. Facebook never intended to offer a recover attribute; rather they were legally compelled to provide a method for individuals to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted to just half-baked options or awkward workarounds, should they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?