How do you disable/turn off Faces???

Just chiming in and saying "DITTO!".

Using iPhoto Library Manager to manually copy one library to an external drive for backup - Finder kept barfing halfway through - now doing an event by event copy to find which picture is causing the 'choke'. Through it all Faces is grinding away, slowing the process down even more. NONE of these pictures are of people - so Faces is a literal waste of time in this case.

I've already submitted feedback but we all know Apple doesn't read submissions - so am doing some otherwise useless venting at this point.

TD, if you don't have any new information to provide to this topic, then please stop posting the same message about providing feedback, then bragging about how posts you have to other members. I was searching for how to disable Faces, and I couldn't stop coming across all of your posts repeating the same thing. You inspired me to sign up for the discussion board to tell you this.

Regards.

If you're a professional photographer then I strongly suggest you look into one of the professional DAM (digital asset management) applications like Expression Media. I wouldn't want to use iPhoto, a general consumer application, for a serious endeavor like wedding photography. It's just not designed for it.

I don't know if you've visited the The DAM Forum but if you haven't it's a wealth of information provided by professional photographers on photo management, workflows and discussions on the various DAM apps, like Aperture, etc.

there is no way to turn it off. it is another example of Apple becoming like Microsoft in not listening to its customers.

Hmm, it would seem that we have a new version of Godwin's Law at work here. The longer a thread goes on the more likely the chances we get the "Apple becoming like Microsoft" meme.

Regards

TD

There is a way to turn it off but it requires some minor modifications to some of the library's files.

*Disabling Faces*

1 - open the library like this.
2 - in the Database folder move these files to the Trash: Faces.db.
3 - close the package/folder and launch iPhoto. Close it after a moment.
4 - open the package, find the new version of those two files and lock them via the Info window for the file.
5 - while viewing the contents of the package type Command+F to start a search.
6 - set the criteria of the search to: Kind is Image and Name Contains "face".
7 - select all of the files in the search results window and drag to the Trash.
8 -close the package and launch iPhoto.

You will get the faces spinning wheel as it tries to index the library the first time it's opened but it won't be able to write to the database file if you should try to add a face and won't create any new jpeg faces files. Once the initial scan is done that's it. I've had no additional scanning when adding new photos to the library.

Of course make a backup of your library before trying this and no guarantee implied. I did it on a test library and it worked as I had hoped it would.