When trying to filter photos by 'Face is unnamed' I get a blank canvas (no results). I know that there are unnamed faces because when in Faces view I can click "Show Unnamed Faces" and there are many that show up.
There are definitely no other filters being applied at the same time and this also doesn't seem to be working when setting rules for smart albums.
Why is Aperture not able to filter by these?
Thanks in advance. 🙂
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 7,1
I got very little to help you out. It does work for me -- I've been working on a large database of portraits and group shots, and the Faces features are all working, including the Filter Rule "Faces" set to "Face ... is unnamed".
Are you giving Aperture enough time to process the query? Look in the Activity window and see what it says.
What happens if you change the argument in the Filter Rule to "Face ... is detected"? Do you get both "named" and "unnamed" images/faces?
Is Faces turned on?
And the usual voodoo:
. Reboot
. Run the Repair, and if necessary, the Rebuild options of the standard trouble-shooting.
Let us know what you find out.
Yes, even when I do this on a small album where I know there are unnamed faces it won't work, there is nothing that is loading during this time. When I change it to 'Face is detected' I do get named and unnamed faces.
Faces is turned on. I have rebooted and repaired the database, the permissions and even rebuilt the database last night.
The only think I can think of is that I moved the order of a whole bunch of face groups in the main Faces view into a different order. This didn't affect anything except the order that they appeared in the Faces view though.
Try it in a newly created Library.
It works just fine in a newly created library.
Have you done the troubleshooting tips at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805 thats always a good lace to start.
I have done those steps, it didn't resolve the issue.
Export all images, then import into the new Library. Just for voodoo, don't switch Libraries from within Aperture -- close Aperture and relaunch.
If you haven't, you might also try deleting all your prefs and restarting you original Library.
Good luck. It's an uncommon wrinkle you've stumbled across.
Thanks for those ideas, but creating a new library from these isn't practical.
What I've done is deleted faces.db from inside the Aperture package and started over again from the beginning of tagging the faces. I created albums of each face though before deleting the db so at least I know where they are.
Thanks for the tips everyone.
'Face is unnamed' filter not working
