Comments on: Prying my stuff out of Facebook

Question: Prying my stuff out of Facebook

ignignokt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:35:43 -0800

I'm in the process of emptying out my Facebook account. I appreciate any tips on this, but there's a couple of things I'd like to know in particular.

1. How long can I expect to wait to receive my archived data from Facebook? I asked for it via their form two weeks ago, and then again one week ago and still haven't gotten anything.

2. I've searched for a way to just delete all the data from the account without deleting the account itself, and it seems that that's not possible. So, I think the next best thing is a user script that just keeps on clicking delete on all of the content. Can you recommend one?

By: COD

COD — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:49:49 -0800

When I've downloaded my content from Facebook I got the notification that it was ready within a couple of hours.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:52:21 -0800

Me too.

By: mkb

mkb — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:58:48 -0800

The "download archive" may be totally broken right now. I mad to make a bug report and keep trying for about a week before I got an answer that actually worked.

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:37:22 -0800

I just happened to do it yesterday, and it worked for me within an hour or two.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:12:41 -0800

Aha. This is anomalous, then. mkb, how did you report the bug? I'm having trouble finding any way to contact them.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:28:54 -0800

OK, never mind - I have a very old email filter that I forgot about that hid the download ready notification from me.

Something to note: The "expanded archive" that Facebook offers doesn't include the basic archive (which has your statuses and photos) as well. So, I'm in the process of requesting that now.