The most important thing you mentioned was at the end, "NEVER DELETE YOUR ORIGINALS !!!" That should go without saying; who would do such a thing? Facebook should be used for sharing content, not as cloud storage. When using the 3-2-1 backup plan, Facebook does not even count. Mainly, because as Leo said, it irreversibly uses lossy compression for everything. Or, don't use Facebook (or any other social media site) for anything important (or at all).
When you take photos with a smart phone, it likely saves all types of metadata, such as the date, time, and location, etc, of the photo (or video). After you upload those photos to facebook, it might not retain all of the metadata. I do not know if that is the case. It is up to facebook to choose whether or not to retain all of the metadata. If facebook discards that metadata (or a portion of that metadata), then your download of your photos might not include that metadata. With a 2 TB portable USB drive costing $69, then short of someone having severe financial troubles, there is no reason to not save a copy of your photos and videos to such a drive. And 2 TB is probably overkill for most people. A 1 TB drive will cost $15 less than a 2 TB drive. Allowing 100% control of your only copy of your memories to be in the hands of complete strangers (the facebook personnel) is reckless. Wouldn't you sleep better knowing that you have a copy of it all?
Earlier this week my computer ran an update. Now I can't open any microsoft files (excel, word, etc). A little box comes up that says updating microsoft 365 and microsoft just wait a moment" After this moment, another box comes up that says application cannot be started. I've tried rebooting a couple of times to no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks.
You don't. Not directly. The backup is simply so that you HAVE everything. You can re-post what you want, to Facebook or elsewhere, but there's no complete "restore".
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The most important thing you mentioned was at the end, "NEVER DELETE YOUR ORIGINALS !!!" That should go without saying; who would do such a thing? Facebook should be used for sharing content, not as cloud storage. When using the 3-2-1 backup plan, Facebook does not even count. Mainly, because as Leo said, it irreversibly uses lossy compression for everything. Or, don't use Facebook (or any other social media site) for anything important (or at all).
I've heard from too many people that do exactly this: upload to social media and then delete or otherwise lose the originals.
Who uses facebook now days? It's wild people have social media displaying their legal names now days.
Millions of people.
When you take photos with a smart phone, it likely saves all types of metadata, such as the date, time, and location, etc, of the photo (or video).
After you upload those photos to facebook, it might not retain all of the metadata. I do not know if that is the case. It is up to facebook to choose whether or not to retain all of the metadata. If facebook discards that metadata (or a portion of that metadata), then your download of your photos might not include that metadata.
With a 2 TB portable USB drive costing $69, then short of someone having severe financial troubles, there is no reason to not save a copy of your photos and videos to such a drive. And 2 TB is probably overkill for most people. A 1 TB drive will cost $15 less than a 2 TB drive.
Allowing 100% control of your only copy of your memories to be in the hands of complete strangers (the facebook personnel) is reckless. Wouldn't you sleep better knowing that you have a copy of it all?
Earlier this week my computer ran an update. Now I can't open any microsoft files (excel, word, etc). A little box comes up that says updating microsoft 365 and microsoft just wait a moment" After this moment, another box comes up that says application cannot be started. I've tried rebooting a couple of times to no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks.
So, I have the download on my desktop, and say, my FB goes corrupt...how do I use this backup to restore my page?
You don't. Not directly. The backup is simply so that you HAVE everything. You can re-post what you want, to Facebook or elsewhere, but there's no complete "restore".
Sometimes Facebook's algorithm incorrectly flags a post as a violation when it is not. I've never thought of backing up Facebook.
I have been in Facebook Jail....