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Q: iPhoto Faces did not transfer to Photos

We had labelled ~ 30 faces in thousands of photos in iPhoto. I have kept all the versions current on all devices including the MacBookPro where we keep all our pictures. No faces appear to be identified in Photos. Photos is suggesting all new faces. Did something go wrong in the migration?

Posted on May 24, 2015 5:04 AM

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  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 24, 2015 5:12 AM in response to JB's Forum Name
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    May 24, 2015 5:12 AM in response to JB's Forum Name

    In the View menu, do you see "Show Face Names" or "Hide Face Names" below the Metadata menu item? If it says 'show' then you won't see face names in photos.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 24, 2015 5:18 AM in response to JB's Forum Name
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    May 24, 2015 5:18 AM in response to JB's Forum Name

    How did you migrate your iPhoto Libraries?  is your Faces view empty?

    Screen Shot 2015-05-24 at 14.17.31CEST.png

     

    When you migrate an iPhoto '11, version 9.6.1 Library to Photos by dragging the library onto the Photos icon in the Dock, all recognised faces will be identified in Photos.

    The Faces Tile will show all known and labelled faces. 

    See this link:  How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

    However, if you sync the Photos Library to iCloud and view it from a different Mac, the faces will not sync.

    Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support

  • by JB's Forum Name,

    JB's Forum Name JB's Forum Name May 24, 2015 8:14 AM in response to JB's Forum Name
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    May 24, 2015 8:14 AM in response to JB's Forum Name

    Thank you R C-R,

    When I change from Hide to Show, the faces that were named in iPhoto (in the good old days) show up as "unnamed". (When first discovered this a month ago, I manually identified three faces in a few photos and those are still the only ones that show up.)

     

    Thank you leone,

    Sorry, I don't specifically remember migrating; I think I just upgraded whatever the MacBook told me to do and one day Photos must have shown up where iPhoto used to be. I am real sure that I did not click and drag anything. I do not use iCloud for Photos. I do use iTunes Match for music. I manually synchronize photos via USB and ITunes every weekend. I only even noticed the difference when I started looking for the newest photos in Albums on my iPad and they were not there.

     

    By the way, my Faces 'folder' is under Albums, hopefully I am looking in the correct place.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 24, 2015 8:31 AM in response to JB's Forum Name
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    May 24, 2015 8:31 AM in response to JB's Forum Name
    I do use iTunes Match for music. I manually synchronize photos via USB and ITunes every weekend. I only even noticed the difference when I started looking for the newest photos in Albums on my iPad and they were not there.

    Faces do no longer sync to your iPad . You have to create regular albums for each Face, if you want to sync faces albums to the iPad.

     

    I think I just upgraded whatever the MacBook told me to do and one day Photos must have shown up where iPhoto used to be.

    At that point Photos would have opened the last iPhoto library you used and created a Photos library from it.  All named faces from that library should have been migrated.  Do you have more than one library, so an older library could have been migrated? That would explain unnamed recent faces for the newest photos.

    By the way, my Faces 'folder' is under Albums, hopefully I am looking in the correct place.

    Albums is correct. You can see it in the Albums tab or in the Albums section of the Sidebar. I prefer to show the sidebar at all times. It makes it easy to drag and drop photos to albums.