Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

Hey I did that feedback thing you told about, no it didn't help my cpu, and no it didn't stop iPhoto from being useless in regards to face recognition mandatory feature.

It's a shame that your only options are to either buy Aperture or submit feedback, at the very least you could provide a good suggestion why this feature should be on?!?!

I have the app I need to do all I want with my photos in terms of editing, I just need a library to check, organise my photos, faster than loading RAW pictures. It's not Aperture. It's just unfortunate that my app of choice doesn't have a library feature, it would prevent me from having to write here.

By the way I had a look at your iPhoto and file management... Reference Library all the way, but hey I'm a noob that won't trust +30000 RAW photos in just one huge database to call it a library that tries to find faces on landscapes.

Now, getting on my feet and tell you something you should be saying too for starters, In My Humble Opinion:

In My Humble Opinion, Face recognition is useless, I did my feedback on your suggestion, lets just hope...

In My Humble Opinion, Managed Library is just a marketing scheme into Aperture, so it seems it's working for you...

In My Humble Opinion, Managed Library presents a huge data loss risk, professionally and personally speaking, here is what I do, In my humble opinion, I have a single reference library, I manage my own files, they are not all in the same drive, some of my most favourite photos are even duplicated in separate hard drives, my own files, not multiple "managed libraries" like one could advise, just the files I want/love/need/whatever, call me a noob, i prefer to keep my work on my hands.

In My Humble Opinion my feedback on iPhoto was in favour of an issue around face smart album feature, allowing users to turn it off it's way to simple to call it a request for enhancement feedback, like what you can do with "places smart album"? 😉.

Maybe I'll try that command-line trick while feedback doesn't get any reply...if any.

Cheers

In My Humble Opinion, Face recognition is useless, I did my feedback on your suggestion, lets just hope...

Well done. Pointless, of course, as iPhoto is no longer in development.

In My Humble Opinion, Managed Library is just a marketing scheme into Aperture, so it seems it's working for you...

Well I won't pretend to be humble, but that's a profoundly clueless remark. Oh, and Aperture isn't in development any more either.

In My Humble Opinion, Managed Library presents a huge data loss risk, professionally and personally speaking, here is what I do, In my humble opinion, I have a single reference library, I manage my own files, they are not all in the same drive, some of my most favourite photos are even duplicated in separate hard drives, my own files, not multiple "managed libraries" like one could advise, just the files I want/love/need/whatever, call me a noob, i prefer to keep my work on my hands.

Okay then noob. Zero data loss risk, absolutely zero risk that is not also present in a Referenced system. It just stores the files in the same Finder that you are. Good luck if you ever change the path to any of those files, then.

Hi Terence,

So it seems, I was searching for a solution for a discontinued product line, I am new to the Mac world and products let's say from the 26th to be clear.

In terms of software, thank you, I'm not using it anymore, still looking for a good photo catalog app for Mac anyway.

About reference over managed, if that's still a subject to you, I don't see any "Zero data loss risk" in my argument, and if you read it more carefully, I just mentioned what I try to do to minimise it, you know that, I know that too, my point over that was simply managed library corruption represents real data loss where has in referenced, if the library gets corrupted, your files might not be, I not talking about hardware failure.

Any way you might be right from the first reply statement you did, it's pointless to discuss things over iPhoto or even Aperture since they are no longer in development, so you say.

Cheers

Any way you might be right from the first reply statement you did, it's pointless to discuss things over iPhoto or even Aperture since they are no longer in development, so you say.

As long as we do nat have a new native Apple application to manage iPhoto Libraries with at least the functionality of iPhoto we are stuck with iPhoto or Aperture. Apple should ensure, that these applications are working correctly with the current MacOS X version. The integration of my photo library software with MacOS X and other Apple applications is very important to me.

I did the terminal thing which worked perfectly. Well done that man but i was left with 10,0000+ thumbnail faces left in my library. So i went into package contents inside iphoto using finder and searched face0 then from that search checked there were not any originals starting with face0 in their original name, to which there were two. Select all, minus those two and delete. Then same again, search iphoto face1, face2 etc then delete. I am now thumbnail free. Granted you may lose a photo if by chance it has face1 etc within the original name but i was willing in the unlikely chance to lose a couple for the greater good. Iphoto is running like a dream. Back up before attempting this and do at your own peril. It has worked for me that is all i know.

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I am new to the Mac world and products let's say from the 26th to be clear.

For a guy using the apps for three days you sure had a lot of humble opinions.

I never said that you said there was zero risk, what I said is that running a Managed Library has no additional risk that is not in your preferred Referenced one.

I know that too, my point over that was simply managed library corruption represents real data loss where has in referenced, if the library gets corrupted, your files might not be, I not talking about hardware failure.

I know that was your point. My point is that is not the case because regardless of whether you use a Managed or Referenced Library, the files are stored in the exact same Finder. So, it's the exact same risk.

For a guy using the apps for three days you sure had a lot of humble opinions.

Running into so much trouble using iPhoto for three days can indeed provide you a few ideas about the app, yes, not because of the app it self, but because of you experience with other catalogs such as LightRoom, PhotoDirector, ACDSee or any other option and how it works, so yes you might have a few ideas and opinion based on just three days, and of course they should be humble, don't get me wrong, but I can have a different view if, good arguments are presented explaining the way this works and why, why not.

I know that was your point. My point is that is not the case because regardless of whether you use a Managed or Referenced Library, the files are stored in the exact same Finder. So, it's the exact same risk.

As far as I could explore: managed, copies the full picture into the library, after finishing( or during import event, don't remember it now) import, the tool suggests to delete the full picture from where you are importing.

Actually it does so too with referenced option, witch seems even wronger, since you are not holding the raw picture anywhere if you do it, so might loose it right from the beginning...didn't even test it on either method anyway(I mean I didn't go with delete option).

If you use both Managed and keep the files you are just duplicating all your full work, where for me it's not the point of a library, I just want to know what I have, organize it in a good enough faster view, and start from that point, for editing it's another subject, again in my humble opinion.

This means most people that might be using iphoto, if in managed option, would tend to allow them selves to remove original picture. Saying this, by corrupting the library, all is gone since all original files were deleted from import.

I can agree that since delete option is displayed in both referenced and managed at import, it would make this software even more dangerous towards your work, has by using reference library, doing the same procedure, you are deleting the reference of a photo at import?!?!?I kind of understand now, maybe that's why Apple is giving up of this software?

Cheers,

Is there a simple way to just turn off Faces entirely? My main problem with it is that it is a very un-Apple like product. Apple is all about making things easy for users, for giving them the maximum control over their devices. Faces is automatic. Faces is always on. Faces can't be turned off. It sounds more like a Microsoft product than an Apple product. I don't like it and don't want it on my machine. I didn't ask for it. It creates Faces of people I don't even know. At this point I have 18,000+ Faces in my iPhoto library and I don't want any of them.

Can anyone help?

Terence,

If you know the answer, it would be helpful if you could post it again.

In any case, the command: defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0

doesn't seem to help in that 'unnamed' always shows up under people's faces whenever info (apple-I) is selected, even if faces was previously turned off.

Note this sequence

- bring up iPhoto and display a picture

- select Info (apple-I) and note that faces now show up with 'unnamed' under them

- unclick the faces option on the right hand side, and not that the 'unnamed' tag is now gone.

- unselect Info (apple-I), and note that 'unnamed' is still gone

- exit iPhoto

- start iPhoto again, display a picture, select Info, and not that 'unnamed' shows up again, even though faces was set 'off ' previously.

As far as I can tell, this is the same behavior whether the defaults option above is set to "0" or "1"

has an easy migration path from iPhoto and you can turn off Faces.

Exactly. Simply open your iPhoto Library in Aperture and turn off "Faces! iPhoto and Aperture share a unified library format.

And that works in Aperture, but if you come back to iPhoto?

Yes. You don't want lossless processing, you want a destructive workflow. Use apps that work the way you want.

My Trainer had me just (shift) select all the current Faces pictures on the "bulletin board," then Delete. Seemed to work. (May have been Command Delete, but it worked.)

big thumbs up to you for supplying the best answer even if it was not chosen!

all these people talking endlessly about aperture and lightroom when the solution is: command/ delete

in iphoto, go to faces folder on left column. select all faces. press command + delete