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Le Libérer
3rd November 2011, 06:31
I am in need of reading a post that was later deleted from a facebook group page. How would I go about retrieving a post that was deleted 2 days ago?

Thanks!

PC LOAD LETTER
3rd November 2011, 06:55
Try searching for the content of the post - as verbatim as possible and in double-quotations - using the Google Monster (tm).

If anything's cached it, this should dredge it up. Although facebook's content and privacy policies change so much, it's unlikely a search engine spider caught it, or anything that might be spidering facebook pages in general.

If you're lucky, and it appears in the summary of the facebook group page, there's usually a link to the cached page versus the live page. Unless you get REALLY lucky and a third-party has cached it for some reason.

Le Libérer
3rd November 2011, 07:22
Thats going to be hard recalling verbatim from 3 days ago. I thought I had taken a screen shot of it because I knew after reading it, I would need it but I am unable to find where I stored it.

Theres no way to catch a cache from my computer?

PC LOAD LETTER
3rd November 2011, 07:39
Thats going to be hard recalling verbatim from 3 days ago. I thought I had taken a screen shot of it because I knew after reading it, I would need it but I am unable to find where I stored it.

Theres no way to catch a cache from my computer?
It doesn't necessarily have to be the entire post. If you can remember one or two sentences that would be unlikely to be used somewhere else, try that.

If you want to brave the cache folders ...

Here's they are for IE and Firefox on Windows (let me know if you use another browser or OS ... I'm assuming you use windows because most people do)

IE: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

FF: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random-names]

Drag-and-drop a given file into an open browser window to check the file.

This may be a stretch, but have you shut off your computer or copied anything else to the clipboard since you did a screencapture? I'm assuming you used the PrintScreen button. If not, hurry up and open GIMP or some other image editing software, make a new blank image, and hit Ctrl-V.

Ohhh I just thought of something else. Go to the facebook page and copy everything after facebook.com. say it's /page/children-of-the-revolution-wants-this-2862. Then go to google and search for site:facebook.com children-of-the-revolution-wants-this-2862 to see if google did cache anything.

Le Libérer
3rd November 2011, 13:52
I usually use Chrome.