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I finally switched to Catalina. Photos is scanning faces with the ambiguous "Photos will continue scanning when you are not using the app and connected to power"
How do I not use the app? Leave it on, but in the background? Leave it minimized? Quit it?
I have tried all these things, but it does not seem to scan. The other complication is that my library is on an external drive, which is why I want to get this thing over with.
MacBook, macOS 10.14
It is poorly documented by Apple.
I noticed that the faces scan is very quick, when I create a second Photos Library and import a few hundred photos, and then continue to work with my main Photos Library. When I open the test library a few hours later all faces in the test library will have been detected. I am not sure at all, what will speed up the face detection in the System Photo Library.
Well, I found out that I need to have Photos off, and the Air set to not go to sleep. It is going slow, though. It has taken all day to do a few thousand images out of 35000.
Getting Photos to Scan Images
