Aquilae75

Q: How do I find all photos with unnamed faces?

Creating a smart folder with "faces" = (or) contains "unknown" does not work. It seems like a bug or major omission in the application. Does anyone have a solution?

 

Also, is there another way to increase the size of the unnamed photos along the bottom of the faces window? It would be good to be able to increase their size to make recognition of faces easier.

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 11:28 PM

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Q: How do I find all photos with unnamed faces?

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jul 27, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Aquilae75
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    Jul 27, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Aquilae75

    No to both questions.

    You cannot search for unknown faces , and you cannot enlarge the faces at the bottom.  You would have to assign the name "Needs Naming" or similar to the suggested faces, and then search for "Face is 'Needs Naming'" to be able to see the full photo before you assign a name.

  • by Aquilae75,

    Aquilae75 Aquilae75 Jul 28, 2015 1:41 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2015 1:41 AM in response to léonie

    I wonder if there is an applescript that could do that? Thanks for your reply.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2015 2:18 AM in response to Aquilae75
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    Jul 28, 2015 2:18 AM in response to Aquilae75

    I can't see any commands in the dictionary for Photos to deal with Faces at all.

    The scriptable properties of media items like Photos or videos are:

    properties

              keywords (list of text) : A list of keywords to associate with a media item

              name (text) : The name (title) of the media item.

              description (text) : A description of the media item.

              favorite (boolean) : Whether the media item has been favorited.

              date (date) : The date of the media item

              id (text, r/o) : The unique ID of the media item

              height (integer, r/o) : The height of the media item in pixels.

              width (integer, r/o) : The width of the media item in pixels.

              filename (text, r/o) : The name of the file on disk.

              altitude (real, r/o) : The GPS altitude in meters.

              location (list of real, r/o) : The GPS latitude and longitude, in an ordered list of 2 numbers. Latitude in range -90.0 to 90.0, longitude in range -180.0 to 180.0.

  • by Aquilae75,

    Aquilae75 Aquilae75 Jul 28, 2015 11:58 PM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2015 11:58 PM in response to léonie

    Hi again léonie, thanks again for your comments. Maybe it's a case of wait and see and hope all following versions of Photos have provision for creating Smart folders that allow the user to find photos with unnamed faces? Ditto for appropriate properties so that images can be manipulated by Automator. If you discover any solutions to the problem that is the subject of this thread, please post it here. It's an important issue for me. Thanks again for your help. Cheers.

  • by opel70,

    opel70 opel70 Oct 13, 2015 1:08 PM in response to Aquilae75
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    Oct 13, 2015 1:08 PM in response to Aquilae75

    This is especially bothersome since you could do this in iPhoto.

  • by mikelach2,

    mikelach2 mikelach2 Dec 31, 2015 5:16 AM in response to Aquilae75
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    Dec 31, 2015 5:16 AM in response to Aquilae75

    Sounds like a great feature request for Photos 1.4 or 2.0. The ability to find all unnamed faces in photos that I've favorited would be very helpful.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Dec 31, 2015 8:54 AM in response to mikelach2
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    Dec 31, 2015 8:54 AM in response to mikelach2
  • by kennyblove,

    kennyblove kennyblove Jun 15, 2016 11:21 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 15, 2016 11:21 AM in response to léonie

    Brilliant and simple! Not sure why I didn't think of this.