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Download Tagged Photos in Facebook – Part 2



If you’re trying to download your tagged photos from Facebook, fbDownloader might work but, so far anyway, it won’t work for us. If you’ve read our previous posts, you’ll know that we’re trying to perform a relatively simple task. As more people are leaving Facebook, they want to take photos in which they’ve been tagged, with them. (We’re not sure why that is, really, because the tags don’t work unless the photo is in Facebook.)

In our last post, we suggested that the Facebook data download might include the tagged photos but it doesn’t. Even the advanced data download, which we haven’t been able to find yet, doesn’t include tagged photos.

fbDownload (we won’t include a link until or unless we get it working), hypes itself as being able to download all of your tagged photos. While the download is free, this big, glossy app is full of adware which you have to uncheck from its default installation. Even then, three links appeared on our desktop leading to ‘free clipart’ (who uses clipart anymore?) and a couple of other ‘free’ offers. Trust us, none of this stuff is free or, if it is, it’s full of ads and could, potentially, slow down your computer significantly.

We’ve emailed and tweeted the people at fbDownloader and we’ll update this post if we get a suitable response. If we can get this app working, and we hope we can, we’ll edit this post to reflect that.

Finally, getting the tagged photos from Facebook involves more than a few technical problems. First, any app that works inside of Facebook has to comply to Facebook’s rules. Second, the tagged photos are usually in many different places. Very few of them would be in your own profile, right? Why would you tag yourself? Each photo has its own privacy settings, depending on whose profile it’s on. We’re not saying it’s easy to download your tagged photos but we take offence when a program says it can do something that it can’t. Even if the program is free, that’s false advertising, in our opinion.

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Photo of fbDownloader
Don’t believe the hype. It doesn’t work.

How to Save Tagged Photos in Facebook



We’ve written about Fotobounce before, here and here plus more. One of our readers asked a very good question regarding Fotobounce, “How do I download the photos that I have been tagged in?” Fotobounce seemed like the place to start, so we fired it up and navigated to our own albums. Up at the top, there is a tab that reads ‘Photos of me’, like this:

Photo of Facebook Tagged Photos menu in Fotobounce
Photos of me is the tab you want.

We were dismayed to see that this tab showed some of the photos the user had been tagged in but not all of them. This user had 156 tagged photos but only 34 showed up in Fotobounce. Hmmmmm…what to do? The problem wasn’t that some of the photos were old ones since the oldest tagged photo was there. We think it might have to do with the original poster’s privacy settings but we’re not sure.

Next we tried a program named Photograbber. Photograbber is free, easy to use but, alas, it didn’t work either. We downloaded the tagged photos but, again, we only got 34 of them, not the full 156. Even though Photograbber says that it will download tagged photos, it won’t download all of them. We’re not going to plug a program that doesn’t do what it advertises on Computers Made Simple so, no link here.

Right now, we’re waiting for our Facebook data download to be prepared. We’re going to check it to see if the tagged photos are in it. If not, it looks like you’ll have to download the photos one by one. That’s a pain but it’s pretty fast. You can click your way through quite a few of them fairly quickly. Just click Options when the photo is on your screen and choose download. That’s pretty fast, all in all.

We’re going to do a post on downloading your Facebook data tomorrow. By then, we will know if the tagged photos are in it or not. Stay tuned!

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