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Old 11-19-2013, 02:17 PM
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I was messing arround with the URL, as the Facebook viewer doesn't always show the full size picture, and discovered this:

If you take the filename (note this only seems to work on photos with the x_x_n.jpg format, and occasionally with the x_x_x_n.jpg format), replace the italic text below with it and paste it into chrome:

fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/filename.jpg?dl=1

then you will get the largest size photo that was uploaded.

What's exciting about this? It appears to work (tested it with 10 photos) on some pictures that have been removed from the client side Facebook or made private.

This means you can get the high-res version of a picture you particularly like even if it has seemingly disappeared, and secondly it allows verification that photos did indeed come from Facebook and they have just been deleted or are private.

Apologies if this is old news.
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