Unnamed Faces keep returning

Aperture and iPhoto treat faces slightly differently - in Aperture you can turn Face detection on and off on a per library basis, in iPhoto Face detection is always enabled, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5260

Perhaps the Aperture face detection flag for your library is broken. I'd try to repair the permissions on your Aperture library, and if necessary repair the Aperture library.

See: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual

Regards

Léonie

• Open your iPhoto Libary in Aperture by launching Aperture with the ⌥-key held down and select the iPhoto library to make it your current Aperture Library. Quit Aperture again.
• Then hold down ⌥⌘ firmly at the same time and double click the Aperture icon in the Dock or the Applications folder and select the repair option you want.

Regards

Léonie

Robb,

I am really at a loss what to recommend. I suspect, your Faces database has become corrupted, but trashing this would remove all faces from your library, and that would be a lot of work to start from scratch.

It is not possible to delete a single face from the Faces stack.

• You could try to assign a keyword (the person's name) instead to all images in that stack, then reject the face and export the corresponding images.
• Import the images of that person into a new Aperture library and assign/confirm faces.
• Then import this library with the assigned faces. Do they now show in your Faces Stack?

You are welcome, Robb.

One last thing you could try. When the "Repair/Rebuild" does not help, it sometimes helps to create a new, empty library, add a picture or two, and then to merge the current library into the new library by importing. This will also recreate all database files inside.

Léonie

Or send a bug report to Apple using the feed back form from Aperture's -menu and wait for the next Aperture update.