While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, condition updates, check-ins or various other details, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. However, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have described formerly. This procedure can take a while as well as the archive will certainly work as a marginal back-up, must you make a decision to deactivate or erase your account. It won't be of great aid in bring back any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your information as well as obtain a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first web page. Furthermore find where it says You could also Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding web link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will need patience. Depending on just how large your major and your broadened archive are as well as how many various other archives are in the line up, this can take some time. And also with that I imply a number of hrs.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete backup of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will resemble.
Although your own photos are meant to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this procedure one more back-up, it is also a lot faster and also could provide you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand add friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV documents are also supported) through the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a different write-up on the best ways to support your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just contact information of friends who have actually consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no way to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize third party devices. Today, the archive simply functions as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had great information, however as I claimed previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or photos you were labelled in, places you looked into, all the Sorts you provided or obtained, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also other records you gathered gradually. Your images as well as friends are really all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to include your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you want to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, as well as visit the Erase My Account page to kick off the procedure. We have previously clarified The best ways to Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never ever intended to provide a recover attribute; rather they were legitimately required to supply a method for customers to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are entrusted only half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?