Facebook Photos Download And Start

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Facebook Photos Download And Start

Heres how to download and start organizing your Facebook photos.

Cleaning up all your photos is a crazy huge project, and you should take it one step at a time.

If youre interested in doing a whole lot more organizing, check out the Get Organized ebook, available for Kindle, iPad, and other platforms.) One of the biggest steps on most peoples lists is downloading Facebook photos.

Facebook is, after all one of the biggest repositories of photos on the Web.

Be sure to initiate a download of your Facebook photos at least one day before you actually need to work with the images.

Youll see a list of choices, and below them, in a totally different font, youll see a link to Download your data.

Select it.

Now, youll likely have to wait a little while, perhaps half an hour, or as long as a day or two, until you get another message saying the archive has been created and is ready for you to download.

Inside, youll find a folder called Photosand a whole lot more.

Theres no way to download only photos and not other data, but at least the pictures are collected into one place.

But if you look back at your Facebook account at your albums, youll quickly see that each subfolder matches to an album.

My advice is to rename the folders with the album name, or a new name if you have a better idea now.

I would not bother renaming all the image files if you have a lot of them, but rather only renaming the folders with some intelligent names.

From there, you can integrate these folders with your other locally stored images, and continue consolidating all your other scattered images in the same way.

Those folders have names that simply do not make any sense whatsoever to the human eye, but the folders and their contents match up with your Facebook albums.

It can be hard to tell, though, when you have hundreds or even thousands of photos.

Once you know the album, you can rename the folder accordingly.

For tips and thorough advice on naming conventions for folders, see Use Folders to Unclutter Your Desktop.

If you dont already have a location in mind, Id suggest using a file-syncing account, such as Dropbox, SugarSync, Box, Bitcasa, Google Drive there are dozens of great cloud storage solutions.

Several file-syncing providers, including SugarSync, Dropbox, and Bitcasa, have an instant upload feature that automatically sends all the photos you take on a mobile device to your account.

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