VIDEO: Facebook: Find deleted messages

Facebook - how to permanently delete messages

This guide will be useful if you are familiar with the previous one Facebook-profile do not have the new Facebooktimeline.

1. On your left profile page, open the "Messages" option.
2. Now you can see your private messages in front of you at a glance.
3. Click to select a message history with a person you want to delete.
4. In the bar next to the name of the person you will also find the selection "Options".


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5. Please click on it with the left mouse button.
6. A submenu opens, from which please select the option "Delete messages" with a left click.
7. You now have the option of deleting all messages in this history with one click. To do this, please select "Delete all".
8. If you only want to delete individual messages, please activate the box next to the profile photo for each message to be deleted.
9. Then click on the "Delete selected" option.
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10. The selected messages are now deleted and cannot be restored as deleted messages.

Move Facebook messages to the archive

1. If you open your messaging option in your left profile page, you will see all message histories with all people listed.
2. To the right of each message history you will find a note indicating when the last message contact took place, for example "yesterday" or "today", next to it the option to mark these messages as unread and finally the option "Archive".
3. The "Archive" option is indicated by an X symbol.
4. You are probably familiar with the X symbol to close or remove Internet pages or files.
5. It is easy to assume that clicking the X icon would delete or delete the messages. remove. That is not quite the case. They just remove you from your field of vision. In truth, you're just moving the messages to the archive.

This is how you can find messages that have supposedly been deleted

1.  If you now call up your messages again on your left profile page, then scroll the overview page all the way down to the end.
2. Here you will find a little option that says: "Ads Archived". Click on this.
3. You will now go to the area of ​​your archived messages and find all the message histories that you have archived there.
4. Of course, this also applies to all messages that you assumed you deleted by clicking on the X symbol. You can find them in the archive. Actually deleted messages, however, are gone forever.
5. If you are not sure whether you really deleted a message or not, the archive offers you the last resort. Anything that is neither in the message history nor in the archive is irrevocably gone.