Review: Download Facebook photos and albums with fbDownloader - mahoneycattess

At a Glance

Skilled's Rating

Pros

Download every publicly purchasable photos in a few clicks
All albums are grouped neatly into their own folders

Cons

Offensive browser changes at default settings
No more way to download individual photos
Erst downloading process has started, there's no mode to come through stop part of the way through

Our Verdict

We put more of our lives on Facebook than we realize or like to admit. If you lose access, you lose data…so back it up.

You may or may not realize it, but you put a lot of your life on Facebook. The social networking website gets its hooks into everyone, devising them miss their inhibitions about revealing everything in their lives, including wholly the fashionable snapshots. If this sounds equivalent you, you may want to utilisation fbDownloader to produce a secondary relief of those pictures.

"But Cross off," I hear you ask, "wherefore should I bother with a backup? Isn't the Facebook site secure enough to hold all of my crazy party pictures?" Well yes, only upfield to a point. Facebook accounts stern be hacked. Even if you have the foresight to number on "Login Approvals," which is Facebook's version of two-factor authentication, in that respect are no guarantees.

After starting fbDownloader, you will see your options on the principal screen. Connected the left, you can prefer either your photos or your friend's semipublic photos.

Plus it International Relations and Security Network't impartial hackers you should be concerned about. Facebook makes the rules, and if information technology doesn't like the way you translate them, the company can shut your account down without word of advice (which they've been known to do). If that happens, then sayonara photos. It may not just Be your party pics that stick zapped. Precious and irreplaceable family photos would also disappear.

IT pays to have an insurance insurance policy. If a hacker or Facebook ruins your day by cutting off your access to your Facebook account, and everything in it, then you testament feature a perfectly unionized backup offsite.

Afterward downloading fbDownloader, install it the usual way (taking care uncheck the boxes for bloatware and browser settings changes). At one time installed, information technology will ask you to log into your Facebook account statement (when you are finished, you ass revoke its access) then the main screen will go up. Information technology will give you three options to choose from: download your own tagged photos, download your photo albums, and download your Facebook friends' public photo albums. Choose the option you want and the screen leave change accordingly.

If you choose the pic album option, you will go out all of your albums in the app and you just have to click on the ones you neediness.

You can also choose whether or not you want the photos in color surgery in black and white (although the black-and-white alternative requires first that you "recommend" them on Facebook).

The first option, the labeled photos, is just a "dog and wait for it completely to download" deal. You can't choice and choose which pictures you want. It's either everything or null. But if you choose the second option, your photo albums, then you undergo a bit more flexibleness. You can prospect each of your albums in a list and choose which albums you deprivation downloaded to your computer (although you still can't choose individual pictures).

The Saame applies to your friends' albums. You can prefer the album, but you sack't choose a circumstantial picture. This isn't so much of a problem if the album in question only has a few photos inside it. But much albums have hundreds of photos and if you entirely wish a few, you'd better limber risen your Delete key finger.

You'll wish to uncheck all those boxes before clicking "Agree & Continue."

One past issue I encountered was that once the downloading process has started, thither is absolutely no right smart to make information technology stop, except closing down the program entirely. There's no "cancel" option, which is an unusual omission in this kind of program.

These small nitpicks aside, this is a gracious teeny program that allows you to backup your Facebook pictures easily, without overmuch hassle. If fbDownloader doesn't tickle your tastebuds, though, and so PhotoGrabber is another sound choice (and a free and open-source one at that). There's no harm in trying both and seeing which one you prefer.

The moral of the story is: Don't rely on just one site for data of any kind. Always have leastways one relief elsewhere. For Facebook, these two apps will more than do.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can download the latest version of the software.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/452632/review-download-facebook-photos-and-albums-with-fbdownloader.html

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