Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

Hello,

is there a way to disable the ***ing "face detection" function ?

It creates thousands of separate thumbnails, many of them do not even show faces, and same people are shown as different ones, so having more than 5.000 faces in my library (which is definitely not the case). This function only takes up space, steals cpu power and is useless for me. I have about 17.000 Pictures in iphoto, andi think it makes the database handling even more instable by creating multiple "faces" thumbnails and redirecting them to the corresponding file.

Thanks for an answer... (What do you think - Better move to LR?)

Michael

Macbook Pro, none

Posted on Jan 19, 2013 1:04 AM

84 replies

Dec 23, 2014 4:15 AM in response to lopezio

This should be as solution here, you're the king!

Yer_Man

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Jan 1, 2015 12:14 PM in response to Stu7610

Stu7610

It's your data, your photos and your mac. If you want to risk losing all of that, good luck to you.

Yer_Man

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Feb 16, 2015 3:40 PM in response to rwraysmith

Read the thread, the answer has been posted in it several times.

Apr 5, 2015 4:42 PM in response to lopezio

I just found your solution after trying to stop F(*^**ing Face Detection for months (well, really, it was 2 or 3 half-hearted searches over a few months, but still). Thank You!! You are a hero.

Sep 26, 2017 6:26 AM in response to lopezio

What do you mean by Terminal.app ?

When I enter 'Terminal' there is already some text entered there.

Sep 26, 2017 6:27 AM in response to christine1140

After entering Terminal do I type .app on the next line ?

Yer_Man

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Sep 28, 2017 3:50 PM in response to christine1140

You're posting on a thread several years old. iPhoto has changed since then, and is no longer developed or sold. It's been replaced by Photos.app. So, which version of which app are you asking about?

Oct 8, 2017 5:09 AM in response to Yer_Man

I am using iPhone version 9.5.1

Yer_Man

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Oct 8, 2017 5:49 AM in response to george1138

That's iPhoto? Try the solution marked helpful up the thread.

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Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?