Learn How to Back up your Deleted Messages

Learn How to Back up your Deleted Messages: Your Facebook are always accessible, from your most recent ones to those old ones from several years back. All you need do is log into your Facebook account or to Facebook Messenger to read through them.

Facebook offers no direct way to save these messages to an external or offline file from Facebook. If you need your messages extracted and backed up in a file, there are some workarounds to consider. This works for messages you haven't deleted, but if you deleted a Facebook message without any form of backup, its gone and there is no means of retrieving it.

How to Back up Deleted message.

Method 1

Saving a Soft Copy of the Messages

• Go to Facebook. Open a new browser tab or window, and visit the Facebook website from any web browser.
• Log in using your details
• Go to Messages view. Right-click on the dialogue icon on the header menu bar, and open the link in a new tab or window. This brings you to the messages view page.
• View your conversations list. The left panel has your list of conversations. The messages here are sorted with the most recent conversations at the top. Each conversation is identified by the person or group you were in a conversation with. The last message date is also indicated beside each message.
• Using the scroll bar on the left panel scroll through your list of conversations. You can go back to years of conversations here. Everything is stored. When you reach the bottom of the current batch, the next batch of older messages will be loaded automatically, until you reach the very end or the very first conversation you’ve had on Facebook.
• Select a conversation. When you find the conversation you want to extract, click on it from the left panel. The whole conversation thread will open on the right panel. You can see and read everything you talked about, from the very first time you started that particular thread with the same person or the same group.
• Highlight the messages you would want to copy. You may not need to copy everything from the beginning. You may just need a certain portion of it. Highlight the messages you want and copy them to your clipboard (CTRL+C for PC, CMD+C for Mac).
• Paste messages. Open any text editor on your PC, such as MS Word or Notepad. Paste (CTRL+V for PC, CMD+V for Mac) the contents of your clipboard. Some formatting and photos may be lost in the transfer.
• Save the file. Once you’ve copied and pasted everything you need, save the file. You now can print or store the messages as needed.

Method 2

Saving a Hard Copy of the Messages

• Visit the Facebook website on any web browser on your PC.
• Log in to your account.
• Go to Messages view. Right-click on the dialogue icon on the header menu bar, and open the link in a new tab or window. You will be brought to the Messages view page.
• View your conversations list. Your list of conversations are contained in the left panel. The messages here are sorted with the most recent conversations at the top. Each conversation is identified by the person or group you were in a conversation with. The last message date is also indicated beside each message.
• Use the scroll bar on the left panel to scroll through your list of conversations. On reachint the bottom of the current batch, the next batch of older messages will be loaded automatically, until you reach the very end or the very first conversation you’ve had on Facebook.
• Select a conversation. When you find the conversation you want to save, click on it from the left panel. The whole conversation thread will open on the right panel. You can see and read everything you talked about, from the very first time you started that particular thread with the same person or the same group.
• View messages to be saved and highlight them. You might not need to copy all your messages, just a certain portion of it. Scroll up the conversation thread to load the older messages until you find the message you want to save. Make sure the messages you want saved is being shown on your screen.
• If you want the browser to display larger texts of the message, just hold the CTRL key on the keyboard while scrolling up on the mouse wheel.
• Print the messages. Use the Print function of your web browser and print the current page being displayed. 

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