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Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by kittykat04 »

I'd like to know how to make my own. Facebook should make thus a new feature. I like it, but would have picked other Most Liked photos for example. All the wonderful photos of my son and my family, and the Most Liked photo they fb team picked, to stay up the longest I might add, was a picture of my cousins, that didnt even include me

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by nimax1991 »

Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back.

To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes:

Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a list of links on your window, just click Ctrl F or ⌘ F to and search "lookback" in the Find searchbar Look for the link that will have something like https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv... and so on. Click that link. After you clicked the link, you will see on your window a bunch of text with white background. Ignore that. LOOK AT YOUR URL BAR. You should be able to see something like chrome://view-http-cache/https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv... etc etc. In the long string of url, DELETE THIS PART: chrome://view-http-cache/ then press enter. You should be able to see your video again...

You know what? I found it! I played it and I downloaded it to my computer. To share on facebook I simply copied the url and posted it as my status. Although it doesn't play through on facebook, it opens as a new window and plays. :)

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by giomav13 »

nimax1991 wrote: post #112

Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back. To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes: Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a…

i did what you said with cache but i can only found my friend's videos that i have seen!

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by tylerlouie »

nimax1991 wrote: post #112

Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back. To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes: Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a…

WORKS. Awesome suggestion and hack.

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by supa »

nimax1991 wrote: post #112

Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back. To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes: Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a…

Sounds great, but I saw the video on my iphone, and shared it before accidentally deleting it. Is there a way to get it back, even though it was on my iphone? I am so sad to have lost that touching video! Also, why has facebook not allowed people to regenerate it if deleted? thanks :)

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by mackeral1964 »

nimax1991 wrote: post #112

Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back. To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes: Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a…

Thanks! Tried this, it worked! Downloaded mine as well :-)

Re: Facebook's Lookback

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Post by faroncb »

shuw wrote: post #35
terabytest wrote: post #29

Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.

I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story of how we built it.

I accidentally deleted my Facebook movie on an iPad. Now Facebook won't let me see it again. Is there a way to recover it?
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