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Posted photos (Original Post) Dyedinthewoolliberal Jan 2019 OP
Doubtful that can be done. LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #1
I've just tried canetoad Jan 2019 #2
Yes, Facebook purposely removes all the EXIF data so that ManiacJoe Jan 2019 #4
Thanks Dyedinthewoolliberal Jan 2019 #3
 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
1. Doubtful that can be done.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:12 PM
Jan 2019

When an image is uploaded, it is a new copy of the original file, which may or may not have embedded tags detailing the information you are looking for. At each stage where the image is transferred from the camera that took it, the embedded tags could be filled or not, transferred or not. The odds that the camera's clock is set correctly isn't certain, the odds that it has GPS capabilities and is turned on is even lower.

Sorry.

canetoad

(18,122 posts)
2. I've just tried
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:16 PM
Jan 2019

To get the info from a ranom photo from a friend's company page with a program called Exif Viewer, which gives you those details. Unfortunately the exif information seems to have been stripped from the Facebook photo.

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