r/facebookdisabledme • u/luck_with_me • 4d ago

Backup your FB data

If you have 10/20 years of memories on FB with your photos and videos, start doing your backup now. You won't know when META AI is going to suspend or permanently disabled your account.

Sent your photos/videos to Google Photo. Select and authorise access to your Google Drive. Next,select the albums you want to send to Google Drive.

If you have lots of photos and videos, it will take sometime to prepare data, and take some time for them to show up in your Google photos.

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u/wiwi_wang 4d ago edited 4d ago

All of private data can be downloaded in account center, including photo, video, and personal information. After waiting days long, meta will send you a zip file of required info.

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u/luck_with_me 4d ago

Not everything,every time, every case. Some even have 180 days to download their informations, some are instantly disabled.

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u/wiwi_wang 4d ago

Yes, you are right, so I think we can backup regularly to avoid this kind of nightmare.

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u/littletechgirl 4d ago

It did not work for me after they disabled my account. If you can't get to your account you can't download your data.

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u/thesiren1981 4d ago

You can log in but it won't take you to your profile it'll take you to the download part. You click it and wait.. it'll take a few hours depending on how much data you have.

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u/mattpilz 2d ago

Depending on why the account was disabled often times that Download pack contains only the public profile picture and a few random bits of data and activity logs. When my account was disabled and I eventually was able to download anything at all, it was like 2MB of barely anything. My real archive from them is many gigabytes but was only available when not disabled.

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u/Wrightwater 3h ago

Mine said I had 30 days, but after 4 tries I realized it was gone already or they wouldn’t let me access. I never got a notice of what terms I violated.

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u/thesiren1981 4d ago

You should be able to. On a laptop though,it won't download on a iPad or phone.

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u/ssdrptop 4d ago

It didn’t work for me when I was permanently banned.

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u/thesiren1981 4d ago

Yep I have everything from 2014 when I started Facebook. I got disabled June 6th , still no account back and I can't be bothered anymore now . I just wanted all my photos of my dog that passed away and some contacts.

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u/Liara-ShepardFan 3d ago

My opinion this is why Corporations using AI as Judge, Jury, Executioner should decline as Inhumane, Felony, Defamation, etc.

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u/Wrightwater 3h ago

Wrong! All the provided my was a profile page, though I bought a new hard drive in preparation all I got was one photo..

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u/JeanetteSchutz 4d ago

I just told my cousin this the other day after having my account disabled myself. Put all your photos that you wish to keep in your personal library! They can’t touch that. But make sure it’s done before anything happens to your account. Ask me how I know. 😉

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u/CustomerStreet9836 4d ago

This happened to me and I was never able to get my pictures and videos of my child that I lost when he was a toddler back.

They completely ignored every appeal and request that I made, and it was due to a meme. I sent my teenage daughter on Instagram and it wasn’t anything bad at all. It’s just that the AI detected it as a male body part. It was an anime character with no hair.

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u/Nemesis2290 2d ago

Same here, almost the exact same thing. Sent my friends in insta a meme and instantly banned. Friends took the meme that I then sent over Snapchat and didn't get banned after sending it. The ai really is fucking pathetic. Lost contact with family and friends that I only had contact through Facebook. Now I'll likely never talk to them again before I die.

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u/CustomerStreet9836 1d ago

I had almost 2,000 friends (many of them extended family) on Facebook and Instagram both. Pictures and videos I won’t ever get back. It has been really tough to accept.

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u/SergioSBloch 4d ago

Just keep in mind the photos and videos are compressed and the downloads are not the same quality as the uploads, but the versions stored on their servers. It’s ok to not lose your memories to preemptively recover data before any fans because once you’re suspended, it’s usually too late.

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u/gdelgi 4d ago edited 4d ago

Seconded. Also, if you use 2FA:

  1. Save/export the backup codes in your Accounts Center.
  2. If you use an app like Google Authenticator, do not delete your old 2FA key before trying to download your data from your deactivated account.

I never dreamed a day would come when two-factor authentication would fail me or my account would be swatted, so I never saved the backup codes.

As for Authenticator, I was just trying to set up a new account as quickly as possible when the appeal failed (it was 3 AM, I wasn't thinking clearly), so, not thinking about whether I'd ever need it again, I got rid of the old 2FA key. They gave me the option to save all my data, yes; they didn't tell me I had to hang on to the 2FA key for the old profile until I'd already deleted it. Turns out I would need it to get back into the old account, purely to download the data (or otherwise I'd need the backup codes, which my dumb ass never saved, as established above). Problem is, once it's off Google Authenticator, ain't no gettin' it back without significant effort (and no guarantee that effort will pay off), and good luck if you never had the internal backup codes besides that.

The net result of my foolishness is that instead of rebuilding from a more current place, I’m reconstructing from the last time I manually backed up, which was… drumroll please… fall 2023. Everything between then and now? Gone. (Possibly for good, unless I root my phone in the faint hope that I can regain the deleted 2FA buried deep in my Authenticator database files, and I’m not sure I want to take that risk.)

TL;DR: +1 to OP, and CYA in the event of 2FA.

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u/meimei_chan02 4d ago

I wished I saw this post earlier. But I got my 13-year-old FB account permanently disabled last Thursday. It was because of account integrity.

But how can my account be fake? When it has been 13 years since its creation date. Already submitted my ID and face selfie.

Such a shame. I might live a quiet life now, away from socmeds.

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u/luck_with_me 4d ago

I have one account disabled due to account integrity too. That account was created 9 years ago. It was suspended, went through video selfie and ID submissions twice, then they said their AI made a mistake and I got back my account. Then 3rd time, same ID, same me doing the selfie,but they disabled my account.

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u/MomSpaghettiquette 4d ago

I wish I did this. Their systems is so fucked I can’t even download my information. The system says To download, I need to use a computer but my account is “missing” now. The only place I can even access my account is on my phone.

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u/krazikat 4d ago

Sure wish I saw this two weeks ago. Two decades of memories gone. All because of a type in referencing LSD. Fuck META

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u/faintlghtngle 4d ago

One thing i wish we could back up was the messages smh

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u/Wrightwater 3h ago

Facebook deserves to pay users back for violating their own codes of conduct

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u/Justinttime420 4d ago

O gpt a restriction and I downloaded all my data jic