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Q: How do I exclude Photos from "faces"?

How do I exclude Photos from "faces"?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 29, 2014 12:42 PM

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Q: How do I exclude Photos from "faces"?

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  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 29, 2014 12:44 PM in response to epinos
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    Aug 29, 2014 12:44 PM in response to epinos

    Best bet - just ignore it - there is not supported way

     

    There is a Hack using Terminal posted in these forums - I do not recommend it but several have used it and claim it worked fine for them - be sure you have good backups prior to doing this

     

    LN

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Aug 29, 2014 12:46 PM in response to epinos
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    Aug 29, 2014 12:46 PM in response to epinos

    Do you still want to use the Faces feature but just want to exclude some faces?  If that's what you want I don't think you can.

     

    If you want to disable the Faces feature entirely try the following method posted by lopezio:

    lopezio

    Re: Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

    Dec 30, 2013 9:06 AM (in response to mkmichaelmk)

    Start of solution:

     

    I did some digging in the prefs of iPhoto and found out the following. 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.

    Many users posted back that it worked as advertised.

     

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Aug 29, 2014 12:52 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 29, 2014 12:52 PM in response to LarryHN
    I do not recommend it but several have used it and claim it worked fine for them - be sure you have good backups prior to doing this

    I tried it on a test library, and it caused problems, when  opened the library in aperture. I would not do it,i f you are using the library as a unified library in Aperture and iPhoto.

  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 29, 2014 2:10 PM in response to léonie
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    Aug 29, 2014 2:10 PM in response to léonie

    Good to know - personally I would not do it at all - and i recommend people do not - but some people want it are claim to be happy with the result - and sometimes it gets posted with no warnings so I try to want people that it is unsupported and should be used at their own risk

     

    and being unsupported not only does it cause problems with Aperture now but it may (r may not) cause even larger problems in a future update

     

    LN