How to Merge My Facebook Accounts 2019
By
Arif Rahman
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Saturday, February 9, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or various other info, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and persistence. Sadly, you will not have the ability to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge My Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually defined formerly. This procedure could take some time and the archive will function as a marginal backup, need to you decide to shut down or delete your account. It will not be of terrific help in recovering any type of Data, however.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your info and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this first page. Furthermore find where it says You could also Download an increased archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will need persistence. Relying on how large your primary as well as your increased archive are and the amount of other archives remain in the line up, this could spend some time. And with that said I mean a couple of hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to get a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the web page will resemble.
Although your personal photos are expected to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this treatment one more back-up, it is also a whole lot faster as well as could supply you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a little faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and import contacts from any kind of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are additionally supported) using the Find Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a different write-up on the best ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only contact info of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below 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-) manually or utilize 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive simply functions as an individual backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent news, but as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline as well as News Feed history will be gone, including blog posts or images you were labelled in, places you explored, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also other records you collected with time. Your images and friends are truly all you could take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make certain to include your brand-new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will certainly shed access to them.
When you have taken care of admin roles, have actually downloaded all your Data, as well as make certain you wish to entirely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and go to the Erase My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have actually formerly described Ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never ever meant to give a restore attribute; rather they were legally required to supply a way for users to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted just half-baked options or awkward workarounds, ought to they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
What would trouble you most if you needed to move to a brand-new Facebook account?