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What if your Facebook account was suddenly disabled?
This has happened tohundreds of users.
Are you thinking of closing your Facebook account but don’t want to lose all your data?
If you are like me, you want to download and backup your Facebook data just in case.
Here is a simple way to backup and archive your Facebook information using the ArchiveFacebook Firefox extension.
Archive Facebook is an experimental Firefox extension that allows you to backup Facebook data on your local hard drive.
it’s possible for you to browse your archive as if it were your local copy of Facebook.
Your backup will be usable from other browsers as well (see last section below).
Disable or Uninstall Scrapbook
Archive Facebook causes instability if the Scrapbook Firefox extension is installed.
If you don’t already have one, get a Facebook username for your accounthere.
Once you might access your Facebook via http://www.facebook.com/your_name you are all set.
After restarting Firefox, you should see a new menu item “ArchiveFB” in Firefox between theBookmarksand theToolsmenu.
Backup and Archive
Login to your Facebook account.
You should be able to browse in Facebook before you kick off the archive process.
Go toArchiveFB>Show in Sidebarand kick off the sidebar.
While you are seeing Facebook open in your web app, selectArchiveFB > Archive.
Once you start the archive process, ArchiveFB begins to retrieve your Facebook stream in reverse chronological order.
You will see a series of dialog boxes displaying how far back it has progressed in the retrieval process.
Once the retrieval process is complete, ArchiveFB will start downloading your Facebook data to create your backup archive.
I found that this trick worked when ArchiveFB seemed to get stuck on a few items in the list.
This indicates that the operation was successful.
Clicking on any of the entries in the sidebar browses that archive set, starting at your profile page.
Observe the web app address bar URLs when browsing your Facebook profile archive.
You should be able to view your photos, friends list, notes, etc.
from within your local copy.
You will see an Annotation Bar at the bottom of the internet tool.
What if you normally use a different web app?
In the ArchiveFB sidebar, go toTools > Options.
In theOptionsdialog, go to theOrganizetab.
In the Location to Store Data, you’re free to specify a different location for your archive.
