Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, condition updates, check-ins or other info, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also persistence. Unfortunately, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all your Data.
Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained formerly. This procedure could spend some time and also the archive will certainly act as a very little back-up, must you make a decision to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of wonderful help in recovering any Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you can download your details and get a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this initial web page. Furthermore find where it states You could likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Relying on exactly how large your major and also your expanded archive are as well as the number of other archives remain in the line up, this could take some time. And also keeping that I suggest a number of hrs.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to receive a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will appear like.
Although your personal photos are intended to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment an additional back-up, it is also a whole lot faster and also may supply you with more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a little shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import contacts from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV data are likewise supported) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a different post on how to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only get in touch with details of friends who have actually agreed to have their e-mail address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge disappointment. There is no other way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize third party devices. Now, the archive just serves as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your choices? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted calls, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had great news, however as I stated before, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a lot! Your entire Timeline as well as Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or images you were identified in, places you checked into, all the Sorts you released or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as any other records you collected gradually. Your pictures as well as friends are really all you could take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
Once you have looked after admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and make certain you wish to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and check out the Erase My Account page to start the process. We have actually formerly clarified How you can Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, needs to the account get compromised. Facebook never ever meant to supply a recover feature; instead they were legally forced to provide a way for customers to download their Data. Therefore, users are left with only half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
What would trouble you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?