Ever wanted to backup your information on Facebook? Well there is a new utility to help you do just that. Social Safe is more than just a Facebook backup solution it will allow you to browse Facebook on your computer. Because it stores all of your personal information on your personal computer it can be used as a solution to pull down all of your Facebook photos at once.
SocialSafe Backs Up your Facebook Photos
The photo backup feature is what originally attracted me to the Social Safe after Julian Ranger commented on my SugarSync experience.
For some background: I had just recently graduated college and wanted to give my profile a make over. I wanted to keep all of the photos I had been tagged in, but not necessarily show them to the world. Who really wants to see my photos of freshman year… really? I had two essential options, right click -> save on every photo OR pay $2.99 and have software back all 900 of them up quickly. The solution was obvious, I quickly whipped out my virtual credit card (aka PayPal) and paid for the software.
The software does exactly what it says it does and does it well! For a full rundown of SocialSafe check out the video below.
Finding Your Facebook Photos
Now finding where SocialSafe stores your Facebook photos can be quite an adventure if you don’t carefully read the FAQ so here is the info you need to find all of your backed up photos.
- Mac: /Users/[USER_NAME]/Library/Preferences/com.1minus1.SocialSafeXXXXXXXXX/Local Store
- Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings[USER_NAME]\Application Data\com.1minus1.SocialSafeXXXXXXXXX\Local Store\
- Windows Vista: 1. Click the Start option in the bottom left corner of the desktop screen 2. Click Control Panel 3. Select Classic View in the left hand pane 4. Click Folder Options 5. Click the View tab 6. Click Show hidden files and folders 7. Click OK 8. Click Exit Screen 8: Click the start option in the bottom left corner of the Desktop screen 9. Click Computer 10. Click users name under folders in the left hand column 11. Click the App Data folder 13. Click the com.1minus1.socialsafe folder 14. Click local store 15. Click the Facebook folder.
- Windows 7: 1. Click the start option on the bottom left of the desktop screen. 2. Click Control Panel. 3. Change the “View By” format to Large Folders. 4. Click Folder Options. 5. Click the View tab. 6. Click Show Hidden Files, Folders and Drives. 7. Click OK. 8. Exit the Control Panel. 9. Click the start option on the bottom left of the desktop screen. 10. Open your personal folder at the top right of the start menu. 11. Open the folder entitled AppData. 12. Open the folder entitled Roaming. 13. Open the folder entitled com.1minus1.socialsafe.D675… 14. Open the folder entitled Local Store. 15. Open the folder entitled Facebook.
Here is a link to read all the SocialSafe FAQ
Backup the SocialSafe Backup
Now after my experience with my hard drive crashing. I have learned to backup anything and everything. I use SugarSync (signup link you’ll receive 2.5gb free using it) and I suggest you do too.
Basically I specify that the SocialSafe folder you found above should be backed up and SugarSync goes to work. Now if for any reason Facebook changes, or something drastic happens I will have all those wonderful memories backed up. If you aren’t already backing up your data I really do recommend SugarSync. If you haven’t already read my full SugarSync Review.
SocialSafe is a Great Value
All in all I feel for $2.99 (intro offer) SocialSafe is the best product on the market and suited my needs perfectly. I can no go through and untag all the photos that are nearly 4 years old and still have access to these photos for the foreseeable future. If you are in need of a product to backup your photos or just graduated college. I would suggest you give SocialSafe a try.