re-run Faces detection + Cork board not working?

I think you need to find a photo of a face, then click 'Name' (at foot of window). If face detection has worked it should 'frame' the face in the photo and you can then name the person.

When you go back to the Names corkboard the person named should be framed and if you double click the pic iPhoto will show you possible matches.

Good luck

Tim

The same thing is happening to me!!

That won't work for the OP's problem.

Basically, iPhoto does 2 things for Faces. Initially it scans your entire collection for any faces. Some people have reported that trying to mess around with iPhoto during this phase screws up the process. My advice would be to leave it alone.

After the scan FOR faces, you then identify faces and iPhoto will try and help you out with that.


There is currently no option to "re-scan" photos for faces; however, check out this threat at MacRUmors:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=7007848


face_blob.db
face.db

These two files hold data for Faces. Read carefully, backup your photo collection, and try at your own risk, but they've been able to get a re-scan using these files. Be warned that any faces data you have currently will be erased. Also, try doing this overnight depending on the collection size you have. A 20GB+ iPhoto Collection should take at least a couple hours if not more.

Hope this helps, Kalman

Make sure they know about it

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html