How to Recover Deleted Facebook
Messages/Images?

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Facebook is one of the leading
social network site on this planet. 

Exchanging and uploading images and
text messages on Facebook is the most common activity that we perform on Facebook.
It has been projected that about 90% of the world's population regularly
uploads images and videos on Facebook. Around 1billion people are monthly
active users on Facebook whereas about 65% people are daily active users. This
estimation is enough to prove that Facebook is the largest and most frequently visited
social network in the world. Uploading images daily on Facebook is a common
activity of today’s youngsters.

Sometimes it happens that we accidentally
delete our images and messages from Facebook and regret later. As there is no
undo option for recovering deleted Facebook messages and photos, we found it lost
permanently. 

We require our lost data for many
reasons like:

<ol>
 <li>When you
 want to verify something about someone or</li>
 <li>For
 retaining our old memories in the form of pictures and messages.</li>
</ol>

At this moment question of ‘how to recover deleted Facebook messages and
photos’ strikes our mind. Recovering deleted Facebook messages is
quite easy. 

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Facebook
stores and keeps the record of your all files, images and text messages.

There are many ways by which we can
recover deleted
text messages and photos.


One method is to keep the backup of
all your messages and photos in the form of mail. We can save the copy of our Facebook
messages and pictures in our email account. So that in case if we delete it
from Facebook then we can find it back from our mailbox. This is done by
changing email notification settings. 

Or in case if you forget to change
your email settings and found your data lost forever then you can also retrieve
it from Facebook server, as Facebook keeps the copy of your deleted data. By
this method Facebook downloads and compresses all your lost stuff into zip
folder containing folders of your messages and pictures. All you need is just
click on these links and browser will open all your photos and messages in
browser window. 

The step by step description of
recovering lost files is mentioned below;

These steps are listed below. 

<ol>
 <li>In first
 step just log into your Facebook account by visiting facebook’s official
 site facebook.com.&nbsp; After you open
 your Facebook account click on Account
 setting option that will appear by clicking bar icon situated on top
 right hand side of Facebook window. </li>
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 <li>&nbsp;Under setting page you will find a list
 of options under which you can edit your setting. In this panel you will find
 general setting option. Click on this link.&nbsp; Under general setting you will find
 "download a copy of your Facebook data” link at the bottom of the
 page. Click on that link. </li>
</ol>

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2. After you click on this link, you will come to the next page i.e.
archive content page.&nbsp; This page contains
detailed information about the content you will get after retrieving your data.
Facebook stores images, old messages and much more. 

You will find 'starts my archive
'button. On clicking on this button, server will compress all of your deleted
data into zip folder. You will be asked to reenter your password that you have
created during Facebook account generation. It is done for security purpose. 

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<ol>
 <li>You will
 receive Confirmation mail about your archive immediately after clicking on
 'start my archive' link. In case if you don't find emails in your inbox,
 then check in your spam folder. Email will contain download link.&nbsp; By hitting on this link, you will enter
 a page having 'download archive' link button. Just hit on that link and
 your download will begin. At this stage you have to enter your Facebook
 password for validation.</li>
</ol>

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4. Download speed will depend on
size of your data. If images and messages are of large size then it will take
some few minutes to download your zip folder otherwise your download will be
completed in just few seconds.

5. Downloaded archive folder will be in zip format. To view this
folder you need to install WinRAR software. This software is used to extract
zip and. rar files. 

Extract the zip folder via WinRAR
software. 

After extraction you will find many
sub folders inside it. Open html folder. 

Inside html folder you will find
all your lost data in the form of messages, images etc. 

Click on message link and open it
in your browser.&nbsp; You will find all of
your Facebook messages inside this link. In this way we can recover
deleted text messages and photos.

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This trick is helpful in case you
want to verify something. Just remember that all of your personal information
is stored permanently by Facebook Company and you can’t retrieve that information.
So be careful while sharing any personal information via Facebook. 

It is said that precaution is
better than cure.&nbsp; Therefore instead of
retrieving deleted messages and images we can save the copy of all the messages
we send and receive as well as the images we upload, in our mail's inbox. By
doing this, in case, if we delete our photos from Facebook then we can find it
as backup in our email notifications. 

All we need to do is to change our
notification settings. 

This can be achieved in few steps

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1. Again Log in to your Facebook account by visiting <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="" rel="">www.facebook.com</a>

&nbsp;By entering your username and password in text
fields.

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<ol>
 <li>After you
 log in to your account, open your setting page by clicking at the icon
 situated on top and at extreme right of Facebook window. You will find many
 options in dropdown menu like create group, manage groups, and create ads.
 Click on the setting option that you will found below news feed
 preferences</li>
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<ol>
 <li><img width="299" alt="" height="279">Inside your setting
 page you will find many options like general, privacy, blocking, security
 etc. But you have to click on notification tab.</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
 <li>&nbsp;On opening notification tab you will find
 editing options for email, mobile and text message.&nbsp; Click on edit option for email. </li>
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4. In notification window you will
see all the settings of your notifications. All the active notifications are
written within heading "what you'll receive". Notifications which are
disabled are marked under heading ‘notifications you have turned off. '

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5. Under 'what you will receive ' heading tick mark the First
option that is “all notifications, except the ones you unsubscribe from '.

Inside “you have unsubscribed from
emails about” section you will find the list of those option for which you have
turned off your notification. If you find the option of message and turn on
button inside this heading then this implies that you are not receiving message
notifications

However, if you don’t find this
option that means that you will be receiving the notifications in your mailbox.


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<ol>
 <li>&nbsp;By turning on the message notification,
 you will found all of your message notification in your mail account as a
 backup.</li>
 <li>Check your
 email. if you have done the right settings for email notification, then
 you will be start receiving all the Facebook messages in your mail inbox</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
 <li>If all
 the conditions are true then you will have the backup of all your messages
 and pictures in your email. So now when the next time you receive any
 message or picture, you will get the mail about this notification. In case
 if you delete any message from Facebook then you can easily find it in your
 mailbox. </li>
 <li>In case
 you delete Facebook messages from your mail inbox then you don’t have to
 worry as your deleted messages will be stored in trash folder and you can
 easily recover deleted text messages from
 trash. </li>
</ol>

Thus using this method all the notifications
you receive via Facebook will be notified in your email.

The process of recovering deleted Facebook messages is quite long and it will consume your time.
Download speed will depend on your file size.

If
your image file size is large then it will take some time to download it.
Otherwise it takes few seconds to download your deleted stuff. Therefore
instead of following this long process, we can simultaneously maintain the
record of our lost messages in our mail inbox.

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Thus, these two methods are very
helpful in saving your important information on Facebook.

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Conclusion 

Facebook stores all your Facebook
data in separate servers so that whenever you feel the need of recovering it
you can easily get back from the server. Thus, with the help of the Facebook's
new feature one can easily recover lost data without any hindrance. It is
beneficial in case of any kind of emergency or verification. Therefore next
time if you forget to keep the backup of useful Facebook content then, you don’t
have to worry at all. Stay calm and just follow the above mentioned steps to
get it back within minutes. 

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