I want to disable the faces feature too - I don't need or want the feature. Additionally it's taking up precious space on my computer. I hope apple does something about this so that the feature is not forced on people who do not want to. I want choice.
You have the choice not to use it. If you donât use it the amount of space it takes up amounts to no more that a few kilobytes. You also have the choice to use a version of iPhoto that doesnât have the feature. You have a further choice not to use iPhoto at all, but instead use some other application. You might also consider that you may choose not to use a Mac, or even a computer. So, how many choices do you want?
Yes, it is important to be able disable faces.
Maybe I'm making a backup of my photos on CDs and I dont want in the future when I browse the photos to see the faces.
This is such an obvious thing..
Another frustrating thing a little bit out of this topic: when I enter a folder with images and I click on one to see it I cannot see to the next or the previous image - I have to select all of them initially.
Little things like make me frustrated with my Mac.
Some things on a PC you used to take for granted.
as to your last complaint about window picture viewer not being in Mac OS X instead of opening the file in finder hit the space bar and it will bring up quick view where you can use the arrow keys to scroll through photos
Yes, there (sort of) is.
Stop iPhoto application.
as root: cd into your Pictures/iPhoto Library
then remove both face.db and face_blob.db
then make both of these links to /dev/null
when finished, it should look like this:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root robertm 9 Apr 25 01:59 face.db -> /dev/null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root robertm 9 Apr 25 02:00 face_blob.db -> /dev/null
This effectively stops faces from keeping any databases.
(Warning: it still "tries" to run just after an import of a fresh set of photos,
just stop/restart iPhoto after an import to get your precious CPU back).
The good thing is: No more database of people and where/when you last saw them
on your HD.
Restart iPhoto. (no more faces, no more CPU / Drive consumption either).
You may want to do a find . | grep face and look at all the little jpg's with the "face" in the name you might want to get rid of as well. (you won't need them now, as they are quite useless to the program after doing this).
To restore the previous functionality - just remove the 2 links, and stop/restart iPhoto.
Many of us who are more than just casual photographers who have 10's of 1,000's
of photos would prefer there was a "no faces" option on this software,
but since there isn't - here's a little bit of relief.
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The good thing is: No more database of people and where/when you last saw them
on your HD
There is no such database of âpeople and where/when you last saw themâ on your HD +unless you create it+. You can avoid this simply by not naming the Faces. If you donât name the faces, donât geotag the photos then there is exactly the same amount of information in your Library as there was with iPhoto 08.
BTW, you can achieve the same result simply by locking those files. Thereâs no need to go into the Terminal
Hi,
I've came across this post looking for a way to disable the faces feature of iphoto. Your suggestion does only work to an extent: my iPhoto takes up almost half an hour to root through my iphoto library looking for faces and it does that every time I start iPhoto and I also do not have any faces to look for in that particular library as it only consists of landscapes and architecture. So waiting half an hour every time I start up iPhoto is not an option.
I too have the issue of having faces run for a significant amount of time after I've opened it. This, of course, comes after I've already allowed Faces to run its course entirely and exited the program by selecting "Quit iPhoto" from the drop down menu.
That said- the continual running of Faces even after I've done what I've wanted it to do, makes iPhoto even more sluggish than it was and is troublesome.
My resolve at this point:
I've rebuilt the database, just to make sure that Faces isn't doing this every time due to a corrupt Faces Library DB. Mind you, I
do like the Faces feature... I just want to be able to tell it when to search and when
not to search.
Additionally, I have sent the request to Apple for the addition of a feature which would allow users to "pause" Faces, or stop it altogether in order prevent the additional CPU load every time I want to view photos- rather than when I'm okay with it scanning.
SO, eliminating Faces all the way around isn't what I want, as I think it's a clever feature. Considering that it does, in essence, keep track of the people that I have taken photos of at the location that I took photos of them (and day and time) doesn't bother me. I'm not the paranoid type, and I've got nothing to fear if someone captures that content and uses it to puke more advertisements at me that I'll just ignore anyway.
Faces is cool but I don't want to use it as is brings my MacBook Air to its knees and wasting my time.
I'm not just talking about that initial run. EVERY time I import images into iPhoto I have to wait three to seven minutes while Faces finds no faces. Did Microsoft write this last revision of iPhoto? đ
There is no such database of âpeople and where/when you last saw themâ on your HD +unless you create it+. You can avoid this simply by not naming the Faces.
I've got a client who just upgraded to iPhoto 09. It chugged through the Faces for a while, as expected. He does not care about Faces, has never used the Faces feature, and has not named or created ANY. But now we have 1500 little jpgs in his iPhoto library, xxx_face files. I do not have any of these in my own iPhoto library (where I have used the Faces feature to identify some people). How did that happen? And more importantly, what is the best way to get rid of them?
