The built-in Facebook “Data Transfer” service doesn’t include Tagged Photos. This sucks. As a workaround, you can use the following tools to migrate your photos with correct date/time stamps.
These instructions are Windows only, though I don’t see why similar tools wouldn’t work for other platforms:
- Download the Tagged Photo Exported for Facebook Chrome extension
- Run the extension as per the instructions, while you’re logged into Facebook.
- When you get to step 7, download the CSV metadata provided by the plugin. This contains the names of the files & the correct timestamps — put this into the
album_files
directory you saved earlier. - Run the following one-liner in PowerShell while in your
album_files
directory. This will transfer the Timestamp into the Photo filedata:Import-Csv exif.csv | ForEach-Object { $(Get-Item $_.Filename).LastWriteTime = [datetime]::ParseExact($_.Timestamp,'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.000Z',$null) }
- Finally, download and run jhead to create the EXIF data in the photos based on the file date/time.
.\jhead.exe -mkexif *.jpg
- Leave the developer a 5 star review :)
If you need any assistance with the instruction above, please comment. I’ll aim to keep them updated, though they may be moved into the plugin at some stage.
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could you explain a bit more on how to run that jhead command?
After I downloaded the jhead application, when I click on the .exe, there just show nothing on my windows 10….