iPhoto '11 Faces. How to turn off?

Just ignore it - once it finishes the first scan it is out of the way

It can not be turned off

LN

space - technically yes - but not really - the face thumbnails are so tiny that it simply is insignificant - just ignore it

LN

It does take considerable space. I upgraded from iPhoto '09 to '11 and the simple upgrade with faces added 7GB of useless garbage to my machine and the dumb program slows my iMac to a crawl. Stupid. I will not be upgrading anything in the future if this is how Apple now operates. Seems like a MS way of doing things. How often do I want to search for all the pictures of a certain person anyways?

No point in telling us, we're only users like you. iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback is the route to Apple.

Regards

TD

I have iphoto 9. The way I solved this was to select a 'face' in the faces panel, and press cmd-backspace. It got rid of the faces, and when I removed them all: Voila! no more useless crunching of my CPU.

Every time you import the app scans for faces. All you've done is remove the display.

Regards

TD

Maybe so, but it certainly does not thrash the disk, and there is a very noticeable improvement in speed. Hence, it may be 'scanning for faces' but it does it faster.