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Jan 30, 2014 12:16 PM in response to suel309by Old Toad,You can't turn off Faces in iPhoto. Just let it complete it's first scan and then ignore.
OT
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Jan 30, 2014 12:30 PM in response to suel309by Terence Devlin,A poster called lopezio claims the following will do the job:
This is how you can disable (turn off) Face detection, without deleting faces found so far (just in case you want to restart processing at another time):
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Open Terminal Application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
3. Type the following (exactly as is):
defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0
(then return)
4. - Start iPhoto - Faces stops getting on your nerves...
If you ever need to re-enable faces, just do the same again and replace the 0 with 1.
I've not tested this so I'd offer a significant warning to back up first and even if it does work then to be wary if you're updating or upgrading as it may have an impact there too.
What definitely works, and safely, is to upgrade to Aperture as that has an option to disable faces. Pay more get more options.
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May 3, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Sryalie,Tried the terminal command and it works like a charm. No photos lost, No crashes.
Go ahead give it a try.
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Jul 3, 2014 7:59 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Carlo Blackmore,Is it just me, when I attempted that Terminal command and instructions, now my Faces feature in iPhoto is showing its refresh icon constantly spinning instead of the intermittent spinning it was doing before? And it's bogging down my computer even more!
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Jul 3, 2014 8:11 AM in response to Carlo Blackmoreby LarryHN,unfortunately when you do unsupported things the results are not predictable
undo what you did and see if that resolves it -- turning faces off is not a feature of iPhoto and any hack to do it involves risk of problems
You can't turn off Faces in iPhoto. Just let it complete it's first scan and then ignore.
I've not tested this so I'd offer a significant warning to back up first and even if it does work then to be wary if you're updating or upgrading as it may have an impact there too.
What definitely works, and safely, is to upgrade to Aperture as that has an option to disable faces. Pay more get more options.
LN
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Jul 3, 2014 8:21 AM in response to LarryHNby Carlo Blackmore,Thank you LarryHN.
I frequently upload hundreds of photos that might have dozens of new people in them and Faces insists on doing a scan every single time I try to use iPhoto and I'm never in iPhoto long enough for it to complete a scan. It's unfortunate Apple created such a slow feature that isn't optional. And I dread to think how long it would take me to upgrade my library to Aperture.
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by Old Toad,Jul 3, 2014 8:43 AM in response to Carlo Blackmore
Old Toad
Jul 3, 2014 8:43 AM
in response to Carlo Blackmore
Level 10 (140,908 points)
Photos for MacDownload and run Pref Setter to view the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file. Launch Pref Setter and search for iPhoto:
Double click on com.apple.iPhoto and search for PKFaceDetection.
There you will see what it is set to. If it's True change it to False, save and try again.
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Jul 3, 2014 8:45 AM in response to Carlo Blackmoreby léonie,And I dread to think how long it would take me to upgrade my library to Aperture.
There is no upgrading involved. iPhoto and Aperture are sharing the same library format. Aperture can open your iPhoto library just as it is, if your versions of Aperture and iPhoto are compatible, iPhoto 9.5.1 and Aperture 3.5.1. Only Aperture is a professional applications with more features than iPhoto, and you would have to learn to use it. And it is not cheap. And Apple announced that the upgrade to the new system Yosemity will bring the last update to Aperture and iPhoto. After that, a new Photos.app will be the new application to manage photos on a Mac. So you may want to wait and see, if the new Photos application will solve your problem.
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Jul 3, 2014 9:51 AM in response to léonieby Carlo Blackmore,And this is why all of you are Level 9 and 10 and I'm just a 1. Thanks for all the awesome input. Good to know Aperture leverages iPhoto's existing library! Better to know that they both are at the end of their road in the upcoming OSX Yosemite release before I invest effort in Aperture.
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Jul 3, 2014 10:05 AM in response to Carlo Blackmoreby léonie,Just one of the many reports on this:
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Mar 13, 2015 10:35 PM in response to suel309by Ziatron,My solution was to switch to Aperture.
With Aperture, one check-box disables faces. Moreover, Keywords can be displayed under each thumbnail !
Love it.
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Mar 13, 2015 11:30 PM in response to Ziatronby Terence Devlin,Perhaps you need to explain that this 'solution' costs $80 and Aperture, like iPhoto, is EOL'd.
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Oct 1, 2015 12:36 PM in response to Terence Devlinby TheGriz,I tries the terminal command with out success. I made one change and it now works for me.
defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled false
I do not want it because of all the processing and disk space it takes up. You can find the files it uses for faces if you view the Photos package contents resources\model resources. Just delete everything in that folder and recover the disk space.

