GUIDE: Save all your Facebook photos in one go!

If you use Facebook, like me, then you’ll enjoy the ability to tag photos however what would happen if your account was suddenly deleted, or that Facebook shut down? Well I’d bet the majority of users have not saved all their tagged photos, if any so the case of backing up this information could be invaluable.  There are many many services across the internet claiming to back up your information but with Facebook constantly changing its settings, many of these services no longer work.  As a result of this, I’ve found the best free services for Windows and Mac systems for you to explore and hopefully use.

First of all, for both Windows and Mac, Photograbber (http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/) enables you to very easily download all your tagged photos.  With a simple user interface consisting of just a few buttons, you can hardly go wrong.  All you need to do is log in securely and, after choosing a folder to save your images, click download and off you go!  However I found that after downloading them, the photos are not organised in any chronological order which makes sorting through them (even worse if you have hundreds) very tedious.  But without dwelling on this point, Photograbber has proved to be the quickest and simplest way to back up and store your tagged Facebook images.

The next piece of software I thought was the most useful was for the Mac only called Photobook. (http://www.caffeinatedcocoa.com/photobook/)  This excels over Photograbber in terms of features yet it can seem more complex to beginners.  Aside from just your tagged photos, Photobook can save any of your photo albums as well as your friends albums.  It works really well albeit with some longer than necessary loading times, but what is best is its iPhoto export feature.  All the photos are kept in order and placed in your iPhoto library which is excellent and easy.  As I said earlier, all these options can seem overwhelming if all you want are the tagged photos but I believe this enhanced free software is worth the gamble.

So if you use Facebook you must consider backing up your photos and maybe now you have them all saved to your computer you might sort through them and find some you want to print off for a change. If you have any ideas of other free software beneficial for Facebook users or anyone at all, let us know in the comment box below or email me at daz@daz4590.co.uk!