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Faces problems; intrinsic to iPhoto '11 or due to library upgrade from '09?

I have been experiencing many problems with Faces in iPhoto '11 that I did not see in iPhoto'09. Can anyone tell me whether these are most likely bugs currently intrinsic to iPhoto '11, or caused by the upgrade of my 20,000+ photo library from iPhoto '09 to iPhoto '11? Has anyone found any workarounds for these problems?

Examples of Faces problems include:

(1) Photos in my Unnamed Faces smart folder (Face-is-unnamed) that show no unnamed faces
(2) Mis-matches between Info frame list of faces in the photo and the face frames visible in the photo
(3) Fewer photos appearing for face confirmation than stated; usually one less. Sometimes I am told there is one unconfirmed face, and none appear at all.
(4) iPhoto offering faces as possible matches that look (at least to me) nothing like the face in question, (although they may be in the same photo), but failing to offer identical or near-identical poses of it.

2.93 GHz i7 iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.5), iPhoto 9.1 ("iPhoto '11")

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 10:25 AM

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BangerT

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Oct 23, 2013 7:59 PM in response to KRDHarris

yes, yes, yes..... I have this annoying problem too.... can't find un-named faces in the photo .... even though it says they are there!!! I can't see them!!! Fix this!!!

Feb 8, 2015 9:50 PM in response to KRDHarris

I've been having the same problem of photos being in an Unnamed Smart Album despite there being no box/face to name in the photo itself. This is using iPhoto 9.6, OS X 10.10.1 on an iMac. I've found 2 things that will remove the unnamed face, but keeps Keywords and named faces in place. Unfortunately the photos have to be done one by one:

1. Click on "Reprocess Raw" in the Edit window. I'm assuming this one will only work if the original photo is RAW. Suspect you would also lose any other edits you have made to the photo, but it does keep keywords and named faces.

2. Duplicate the photo (e.g. Command+D). The duplicated photo retains keywords, named faces (and i'm assuming other edits) but it doesn't have the mystery unnamed face. You can then delete the first copy and rename the second copy (i.e. delete the "Version 2" in the file name)

Faces problems; intrinsic to iPhoto '11 or due to library upgrade from '09?