How to extract my Profile Picture from my Microsoft Account?

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How to extract my Profile Picture from my Microsoft Account?

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Does anyone know how to extract my Microsoft Profile Picture without it being deleted?- I am only able to see it only when I edit my Microsoft pic [https://i.imgur.com/P5s9bQK.png] but I have no idea how to redownload it back and use it because I accidentally deleted it from my pc. Besides, I don't know where the whole pic is stored on my pc. If you have any ideas how to do it, please tell me. I am listening, and I've been searching for a while.

Also, if this is the wrong category. I didn't know where to post it. I am sorry.

Thank You, Misaka.

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Answer 1

Hello RMisakaMikoto,

Thank you for your response and clarifying your concern. Let us try other solutions if this is fine with you.

Press Windows + R and key in the listed path below and see if you can locate the picture.

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

%ProgramData%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures

C:\Users\Public\Pictures

If that doesn't help, please let me know so I could further help you with your concern.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Hello RMisakaMikoto,

Good day!

I'm Jericho, a fellow customer and an individual advisor. I am happy to assist you!

If you have the option to right click the picture and select 'Save picture as', that will solve your concern. But if not, I may suggest that you simply use a snipping tool.

Just search for the application in Start by typing-in 'Snipping tool' > Now, select New . Make it sure that you are in your window where the picture is at before clicking New. (you will have now the option to crop and capture the image that you want to save)

After capturing the picture, click File > Save as > Save it to your desired folder and you'll have the picture file that you want.

Hope that helps! Please let me know if you have other queries/concerns.

Cheers,

Jericho

Answer 3

Unfortunately if I right click and Click Save as.. It won't work, it will download some sort of microsoft files, and the snipping-tool is not useful because I am trying to get the whole Picture back with the same size, not just a part of it.

Now, I hope you understand what I am trying to do.

Answer 4

It didn't help me, are we able to discuss further on Discord if possible?- there I will be able to share you my screen and show you what I see, without big explanations. The first path could've work if it didn't show me "Change Picture" when I clicked on it, if I attempt to Copy & Paste, shows the same thing. And I didn't found my picture on the other paths like User Account Pictures or Public Pictures for some reason, I have restarted my drivers so I don't believe I'll find it there. I just looked into it too and there isn't any.

Anyway, my discord is "Misaka Mikoto#0001", also thanks for trying to help me. We'll discuss further there if you own the platform, otherwise reply to this post again.

Answer 5

Hi RMisakaMikoto,

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry that the solutions didn't help. Apologies, as much as I want to help you further, we are not allowed to discuss using different platforms for privacy of us customers and experts.

In this case, I may suggest that you reach out directly to their feedback hub and state your concern as this seems to be a complicated concern and hopefully they can provide you a solution.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/402156...

Hope that helps! Please let me know if you have further concerns.

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