Q: Faces gone after upgrades to Mavericks and iPhoto database.
After upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, the iPhoto Database had to be upgraded by iPhoto to work with Mavericks. It went thru the process and afterwards many (but not all) of my Faces were gone. The photos are still there...and they're still tagged with the appropriate Faces name, but they will not show up in Faces. The only way I can get them to show up there is to delete the Faces names that are already on the photo and re-enter the Faces from scratch. But since there are at least 1500 photos that are affected, there's got to be a better way! I've done each of the following to no avail:
1) Repaired permissions.
2) Rebuilt Thumbnails.
3) Repaired the Database
4) Rebuilt the Database
5) Restored the Database from Time Machine to pre-Mavericks. The database had to be converted by iPhoto like before. And the results are the same - lots and lots of Faces missing - though everything else appears to be there. The only thing I can see is that it's the same set of years where the Faces are missing (it's something like all Faces from 1942-1970 are missing - but the ones before and after that are there).
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
iPhoto '11
Posted on Nov 1, 2013 7:14 PM
Hi. My issue has been solved, though I don't understand how. After Apple issued an Aperture update back in November, it fixed the Faces problem in Aperture, though iPhoto still had the same Faces problem at least 24 hours later. However, a week or so after that, I happened to look in Faces for something and found that all of my missing Faces were back...and have been ever since! I had done nothing since the Aperture update, in turns of updates or repairs, so I don't know how it got fixed! iPhoto and Aperture share the same database, so it sort of makes sense that if you fix something in Aperture that it will fix the same problem in iPhoto. Except that it didn't - at least initially. And I didn't even use Aperture after I installed the update. So, I'm happy again....just wish I understood what happened.
An aside: When encountering these initial problems after the iPhoto upgrade, I wrote a review in the App store that mentioned these problems. Someone from Apple saw it and contacted me, asked if I'd be willing to work with an Apple engineer to help resolve the problems. Of course, I said YES.....but no one ever contacted me. I guess they figured the Aperture update would take care of the problem - which it did - eventually.
Posted on Dec 30, 2013 1:18 AM


