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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

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 4, 2014 10:20 AM in response to bwadma
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    Mar 4, 2014 10:20 AM in response to bwadma

    That feature in Contacts has been broken for a while now.  The only way currently to get photos into Contacts is to drag them in to the photo space from iPhoto or the Finder.

     

    Be sure to send a report to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html and http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html.

  • by bwadma,

    bwadma bwadma Mar 5, 2014 7:04 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 5, 2014 7:04 AM in response to Old Toad

    I also hoped that 10.9.2 would fix the bug, but it did not.

     

    Faces-to-Contacts is still broken as described here:

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/24378633#24378633

     

    The view numbers on the various threads addressing the same issue / Mavericks bug are increasing, but they would only be "impressive" if they are added up.

     

    I will re-submit my complain, but I am frustrated how sloppy Apple deals with identified bugs!

    (Steve is missing!!)

  • by petr69,

    petr69 petr69 Mar 12, 2014 3:12 AM in response to veggiejoe
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    Mar 12, 2014 3:12 AM in response to veggiejoe

    Its just workaround and worked for ML... Go to Finder and in menu "Open" press Alt and open Library. Then create folder Images.

  • by bwadma,

    bwadma bwadma Mar 15, 2014 4:30 AM in response to Incredulocious
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    Mar 15, 2014 4:30 AM in response to Incredulocious

    Dear Incredulocious, dear petr69,

     

    check here:

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/24378633#24378633

     

    Maybe, that helps?

  • by dougfromaustin,

    dougfromaustin dougfromaustin Nov 30, 2014 6:29 PM in response to veggiejoe
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    Nov 30, 2014 6:29 PM in response to veggiejoe

    My iPhoto faces disappeared when I moved to Mavericks and I have been searching for a solution ever since.  While trying a bunch of forum suggestions again after taking some months off, I might have found a solution:

     

    In Iphoto, click on the Library > Faces on the left.  Select them all by Command + A.  From the pull downs, select Photos > Detect missing faces. This takes some time.  After it is complete, scroll over each face with the mouse so that it flips through the various head shots of that person and click on one of them.  That becomes the new key photo for that Face.  Do the same for each.

     

    I initially did it by accident on one face.  Before doing so, scrolling the mouse of the face did not show changing faces but as the detection started, it actually started showing faces again. Click on one of the faces and it will become the new Face key photo.  So this for all of your faces and they will all be back.

     

    I tried command+option open options over and over and none of them worked.

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