Surely you have come this far because you want to know if it is possible and how you can recover deleted messages from Facebook or FB Messenger. How heavy! Surely we have important information to rescue from deleted conversations and we can’t find a solution.
Yes, it is very common for it to happen to us that by mistake or carelessness let’s delete a conversation with essential content, Or maybe we just didn’t think it was relevant at the time we decided to delete it, and now we can’t find a way to get it back.
So good, if for any reason you have deleted facebook chats that you want to restore, this post will be very useful for you. We will show you how you can recover them according to the case.
Steps to recover all your archived Facebook messages and conversations
First of all you have to know that when it comes to getting rid of a Facebook conversation It is best to archive it. so that if at any time we need to recover it, it can be a much simpler process.
The archived conversations will disappear from our inbox, but we will still have the possibility to access them, since they will not be completely eliminated, so we can access the information that they may contain.
How can we archive a FB conversation? Simple, simply in our inbox we will choose a message, position the cursor and right click on it until the options icon appears and then select “File”.
Recover deleted conversations from the computer
Yes, there are ways to restore conversations from our computer that we have previously archived, and this will only take us a couple of minutes at most to complete the process.
Next we will show you the steps to follow to rescue them:
- Once this is done we will go to the upper right and We will click on the Messenger icon.
- The message tray will be displayed, we will select “See everything in Messenger”, it will open a window with our input.
- In the upper left, almost in the corner we can see the icon of “Setting”. We’ll click there and select “Archived Conversations”.
- When we’ve done this we can see the list of conversations that we have archived previously.
- We will select from the list of conversations the one we want and we can access it to see its content, if we prefer we can send a message through it to be sent to the inbox again.
Rescue chats from the FB Messenger App
If instead we want to rescue our chats through the application of We can also do it in a similar way as previously indicated:
- Open the FB Messenger app on your mobile device.
- Next we will use the search engine to find the chat that we have filed, for this we will place the name of the person.
- Once we have found the conversation, we will enter it to view it. If we want to have it back in our inbox we simply have to send a message for it to appear there. It’s that simple we can recover chats from the FB Messenger app.
Notably to archive them in this app We just have to search for the person’s conversation without opening it, then we will have to leave it pressed or slide it to the left and select the icon with the three lines and “File”.
How to recover deleted Facebook messages that are not archived?
Unfortunately, if we have not created a backup of our FB messages before deleting them, there’s no chance we can get them back. It should even be noted that this platform only stores on its servers the messages deleted up to 90 days later.
Now what if possible, it is to recover messages that we have sent from our Facebook Messenger application and that for some reason we deleted. Perhaps we are unaware that this application saves records on our device, but the truth is that it does. So, if we have mistakenly deleted chats, we can access them.
Next we will show you how to do it from your mobile or from your computer:
Recover them from an application from the mobile
If we want to recover the messages that we have deleted, we can access them simply using our mobile device. The only thing we will need is a file explorer, may well be EN File Explorer, one of the most popular.
- we will download from Google Play the ES File Explorer app.
- Once we have installed the app, We will proceed to open it.
- when we’re in it we will go to the SD card or to Internal storage, according to the case, and we will locate the folder “Android” and inside it the folder “Data”.
- inside the folder “Data” we will find another call “com.facebook.orca”, We will enter it and select the folder “Cache”.
- inside the folder “Cache” we will find another call “fb_temp”, she will be content with backup information that FB Messenger saves automatically.
*Update: Google has decided to remove all applications created by the company from its Play Store DO Globalamong which is the famous app ES File Explorer File Managerafter it was discovered that these apps generated clicks to advertisements in the background.
Restore deleted Facebook messages from my computer
we can also recover deleted Facebook Messenger conversationsusing our computer instead of doing it from the mobile.
- We will connect the mobile device to the PC via USB cable.
- Once the connection between the mobile and the computer has been established, We will look in the explorer for the SD Card or Internal Storage.
- We will enter the folder “Android”, inside it we will enter “Data”.
- We will enter the folder “com.facebook.orca” and then in “Cache”.
- We will locate the folder “fb_temp” and we will enter it to access our files.
How to protect our Facebook conversations by making a backup?
caution is forearmed. It is very important to back up the information from our Facebook conversations creating backups on a regular basis. This, in order that if we mistakenly delete a message after this, we can access it.
If we want to create a backup of our conversations we will simply have to follow these simple steps:
- First of all, we will log in from our computer.
- In the upper right corner we will click on the inverted triangle and from the window that will be displayed we will choose “Setting”.
- On the left side of the screen we will select “Your Facebook information.”
- In section “Download your information”, we will click on “Watch”.
- All the information that we can support will appear, there we will make sure to have the box checked “Messages”.
- We will click on “Create file”, The page will be updated and FB will announce through a text box that our file is in the process of being created.
- When our file is ready We will receive the notification on our Facebook account and in our email.
- Once we receive the notification we will click on it and it will take us directly to the page where our file is located.
- We will click on download, We wait for our download to complete.
- Once we have downloaded and we will have access to the information.
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