So Google's new Social network „Google Plus“ is the hottest new thing in town. A lot of people are in. And a vast majority of them, like me are looking to move in permanently.
The biggest thing that Facebook has going for it right now are the photo albums. Posts, comments and other blurbs are but random things that won’t really hold as much nostalgic value for me, as do my photographs. It turns out; Facebook lets you download all your private data on their servers in a neat zip file. Mine was about 200 MB. That was all the photographs I have ever uploaded, my notes, my posts and all the comments on them, as well as the latest version of my profile page. Here’s how I downloaded all my photos and data off Facebook, without violating their terms and conditions (which discourage use of third party tools and scripts from downloading data en masse from their servers).
Log into Facebook with your account.
Go to the top right hand side of your Facebook page. Click on “Account Options.”
Click on “Download Your Information”
You will now be at www.facebook.com/download Click on the download button. You might get a popup; click on the Download Button once again and wait. It takes a few hours, usually. But if you miss the email, and Facebook makes a new backup of your data, you’ll have to start this process over again.
Once you get an email from Facebook announcing the readiness of your download, follow the link, and validate yourself. You will be asked to:
Once you validate yourself, the download will begin. Be advised that download managers will not work here. If the download times out, you will have to restart the download from your email or from www.facebook.com/download.
Celebrate! You how have a local copy of your Facebook data! Just unzip them photos to a place you will remember. I created a folder in My Pictures called “Facebook Photos”. Now that you have all your images, the best way to get them on your Google Plus profile is via Picasa. Picasa now offers unlimited storage for images below 2048×2048. It’s safe to say that all photos uploaded to Facebook have been subjected to compression that will make them fit this specification, so you do not have to worry about using up your storage space in Picasa web albums.
Download Picasa desktop from: http://picasa.google.com/ Once the software is installed and set up, run it, and let it scan your computer for images. You tech savvy kids might want to use the folder manager to specify which folders to scan and which to ignore. Winking smile In case you missed the setup, you can find the folder manager in Tools > Folder Manager. Make sure not to exclude the place where you’ve saved your Facebook photos!
Once Picasa is done sniffing your Images, you will find a folder corresponding to every Facebook album you have uploaded. You can click on each folder to view its contents. Now begins the difficult part.
The top right side of every folder has a toggle to “Sync with Webalbums”. Set this toggle to “On” for all the image folders you want to upload to your Picasa web albums account. I don’t quite remember what settings I’d but remember to set the image size to anything less than 2048×2048 pixels.
Wait. If you have a lot of photos, Picasa will take a while to upload them all. Once your images are uploaded, you can check them out in your Google Plus profile. You can set their privacy as you want, and share them with your friends!
Quelle: blog.mihirpathare.com