Last fall I participated in a road trip from Canada to Costa Rica with 6 other guys to help deliver a motorhome for a friend. I took it upon my self to deliver a play by play with photos to families and friends through a facebook group I set up. During the trip I became concerned with notifications I was running out of cloud space so I started deleting pictures from my camera so I could take more on the trip for the facebook group. Simply put the only photos I have of the trip are on facebook, And I want to get those photos and videos out of there and start working on a documentary of the trip.
I’m 69 years oid and I need help.
How can I get my own control of these pictures ?
This is assuming you have an actual Facebook Group and not a group chat on Facebook Messenger…
This is also assuming you’re using a computer and not a phone.
- Go to the group
- Go to “Photos” on the left-hand-side menu
- All the photos should be there.
– If they’re not there on that page, because you made an album, click on “Album” towards the top middle of that page
- Click on each photo. At the bottom of each photo when it comes up should be a link that says “Options”. Click that.
- Choose “Download” from the “Options” menu
– Clicking “Download” might open up a “save file” prompt from your computer. Save the file.
– Clicking “Download” might just take you to a new page with just the photo on it. If this happens, right-click on the photo and choose “Save Image As…” to save to your computer.
---- If the above happened, and you end up on a page with just the photo, after saving it, hit your browser’s “BACK” button to go back to the page with all the photos.
You’ll have to do this for each photo.
If you need more help (things might not work as I described if you’re using a different browser than me), come back.
a) Can you find the bloody things on Facebook? That’s the main problem with Facebook, whatever you did in the past rapidly recedes into the unfathomable mist and they don’t provide a search engine.
b) Assuming you can, right-click the picture. It will either say “Open link in another tab/window” or “Open image in another tab/window”. Do that; if it said “link”, repeat until it finally gives option of opening image in another tab/window.
c) Now you can download it to your hard drive, either by drag-and-drop or right-click and invoking “Save Image As” or “Download Image”.
Exact words in the right-click dialogs depend on what browser/OS you’re using.