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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by atomical on Thursday April 19, 2012 @02:03AM (#3861639)
I had deactivated my Facebook account. After I read your comment I decided to log in and try to get this dump. I waited probably ten minutes and it still hadn't finished. After that period I lost interest in having my Facebook open so I suspended the account which probably canceled the background job. This feature is slow as fuck.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by qznc on Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:21AM (#3861809)
It took a few hours in my case. You don't need to be logged in, though. They sent me an email, when it finished.

I assume they have a low priority batch system to handle these requests.

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