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Backup Your Facebook Photos

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There are two different FBCMD commands that are useful for backing up your photos:

Your own Albums

The OPICS command lists the photos by owner (i.e.: who's album it is)

For example, the following command will backup the photos from all your albums to c:\myphotos
fbcmd OPICS =me c:\myphotos\ "-of=[aid]/[pid].jpg" -pic_skip_exists=1 -csv

The switches (preferences) are described as follows:
  • "-of=[aid]/[pid].jpg" (see *PIC Preferences) specifies the filename for each file: in this case, a directory will be created for each album by Album ID
  • -pic_skip_exists=1 (see *PIC Preferences) specifies that the file will not be overwritten if it already exists (very useful for incremental backups)
  • -csv simply formats the output in CSV format for easier scripting, but also displays progress as it goes

Photos You are Tagged In

The FPICS command lists the photos by tagged user

For example, the following command will backup the photos you are tagged in to c:\myphotos\tagged
fbcmd FPICS =me c:\myphotos\tagged\ "-ff=[pid].jpg" -pic_skip_exists=1 -csv

Note: Not all of your photos may be backed up, as your friend(s) may have high privacy levels set so that applications cannot see their photos.
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