Just a reminder if you are thinking of leaving #Facebook or are even just collecting your posts and photos and things to have them locally: be prepared for some shenanigans with your download.
#Facebook will happily email you that they've started a download request, and their email will tell you they will send a second email when it's done.
For me at least, that second email never came, even well after the download request was complete.
I think this is an "oops" that's not really an "oops". After 4 days with no followup email, I ended up logging in to see what was going on. The download request was not only done, it had completed about 2 days beforehand *and the download was about to expire*, which would require me to do the whole damn request all over again.
It feels like a #DeceptivePattern to get you to log in more often than you would, just to be sure you got something you requested and have every reason to expect would be done timely.
David Nash /
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2025-01-19 18:58:49
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