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purpleinnej

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Feb 8, 2010
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Yigo, GU
I made a big mistake and didn't backup my external hard drive with my only copy of my iPhoto library. I know, I know. Lesson learned. The only solution I can think of, and it isn't a great one, but it's something... is to download all my albums from Facebook. I'd like to find a way to download the album, complete with album name, photo caption, and date uploaded. So far, no luck finding a way to do this. Below are the options I've tried. Does anyone have a suggestion that hasn't already been explored? If one program can get part of the info, and another can get a different part, surely someone has developed a tool that can get ALL the parts... right?

Mylio – Gets album names. Gets picture upload date. No captions.

Seagate Dashboard (new external hard drive is a Seagate and came stock with this) – Gets album names. No date. Gets all picture captions as titles. Includes extra info in album name and pic title (random FB-assigned number). Doesn’t get all albums (49/300+)

Facebook archive – No album names. No dates. No picture captions.

Fotobounce – Gets album names. No captions. No date.

O-Drive - Gets album names. No captions. No date.

DownAlbum – One album at a time. No captions. No date

Ensky’s Album Downloader – No captions. No dates. No album names.

Facebook Album Downloader – One album at a time. No dates. No captions.

Facepaste – Never figured out how to make it work.

Bulk Media Downloader – Worthless
 
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