While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, condition updates, check-ins or various other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as patience. Sadly, you won't be able to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined formerly. This procedure can take a while as well as the archive will serve as a marginal back-up, should you make a decision to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of fantastic assistance in bring back any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as 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 obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first web page. In addition locate where it claims You could also Download an expanded archive ... and also click the particular web link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly need persistence. Relying on exactly how big your major and also your broadened archive are and the number of various other archives are in the queue, this can spend some time. And also with that I mean a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal photos are meant to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a lot faster as well as might offer you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you will not have the ability to Restore or move all your Data which includes your friends. You have to by hand add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a tiny faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are additionally sustained) using the Locate 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 calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate short article on how to back up your Facebook calls. Note that just get in touch with info of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge disappointment. There is no other way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize third party tools. Today, the archive simply works as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I want I had excellent information, yet as I claimed previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly shed a great deal! Your whole Timeline and News Feed background will certainly be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were tagged in, areas you checked out, all the Sorts you released or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other records you collected with time. Your photos and friends are truly all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you take care of. Or else you will shed access to them.
Once you have dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and make sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to close, and also visit the Remove My Account web page to begin the process. We have formerly explained Ways to Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account get compromised. Facebook never meant to offer a restore attribute; instead they were legitimately forced to use a means for customers to download their Data. Consequently, customers are entrusted to just half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?