New MacBook Pro. Imported all my pictures. It scanned all the faces (2 hours) I started tagging photos (about 100) My library is about 20Gig.
When I go to Faces and click on a name I see the pictures I tagged then
.... may also be in the photos below
and the arrow just spins. This happens for everyone. How long should this happen? Is something broken?
You know how you can drag a box around a bunch of icons on your desktop to select all of them? Try doing that in the Faces section. (But first you have to click on the box at the bottom that says something like approve names.)
I have v8.1.1 (419) and the problem is still there. There are about 12000 photos in my library on 6 month old a new MacBook Pro, with a fresh OS and iPhoto install. I have let iphoto run for days and the process does not complete.
it must work. please follow those steps (as for one of my previuos posts):
+The update has finally resolve the issue and work fine for me.+
+As said in some posts before from other users, I don't raccomend to follow the steps indicated with the update.+
+you MUST start from scratches.+
+1- install the update.+
+2- don't open iPhoto now.+
+3- delete you face.db and face-blob.db files+
+4- open iPhoto+
+5- click on faces and iPhoto will start an automatic scan of all your photo with live preview and esitmated time left to complete (it was 128 minutes on mine, ended in 113 minutes)+
+6- when the 5th step is complete click on pictures.+
+7- choose ONE picture with one person you wanna tag. add his/her name.+
+8- click again on faces and you'll probably see again the spinning wheel and again it's looking as non responsive. DON"T touch ANYTHING! wait! it take 5 or 6 minutes (just the first time) and then you'll get suddently the possible matches.+
+9- when all the possible matches are pop out in the lower window, click on confirm name, start to place ONE click on the right match, TWO click to deny a wrong match.+
+10- when you finish confirming hit the button END.+
+11- that's it, it works+
+12- repeat for other people starting from pictures, you'll not get anymore the spinning wheel.+
+For has worked and I'm finally very happy.+
+one note: i still have in my library videos, NEF and RAW files, gif and Jpeg, many different formats and size. I didn't get any error.+
Ok, cool, this works. But how about a way to approve all the faces within a particular photo? If I import a new photo with, say, 10 people in it, iPhoto is pretty good at guessing who all of them are. If I see that they're all correct, as far as I can tell I still have to click on each one to approve them. Is there a way to approve all the faces in a particular photo at once?
After many frustrating threads I stumbled across this one. I installed the update, deleted the faces.db files and after the initial scan it worked great. Surprisingly fast actually. No rebuilding of the library, no re-installing, and it took me longer to research it than it actually did to fix it. Good luck!
One thing to remember people is that it is SUGGESTING faces, not guaranteeing them. The more faces you tag, the better it becomes. Also for demonstration purposes lets say you have only ever taken pictures of three people. If you tag person A and B it will continue to suggest matches that include person C because it has unmatched photos that it is trying to add to the only two known people. So, tag person C too. The more people in your db the smarter it gets.
