Why does smart album not find most photos?

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Tom Ritch Author

Level 2

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Why does smart album not find most photos?

A Smart Album which has the single condition

finds 339 photos. In Faces I select [my wife's name] and open the set of exemplars, and 6,906 photos are found.

Why are most photos in which my wife's face is found not found by the Smart Album?

I have seen this and similar Smart Album errors ever since I began using Photos. I have reported them as bugs. Is there something I am missing, or are Smart Albums this unreliable?

Posted on Jul 14, 2015 11:26 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Jul 14, 2015 11:33 AM in response to Tom Ritch

Try the smart rule "Face is ...." and start to type the name of your wife. Are there multiple suggestions for a completion? Then you may have defined more than on faces set for your wife. Use the completion that will give the most results.

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Answer 2

Tom Ritch Author

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Jul 14, 2015 12:17 PM in response to léonie

Thanks for the quick reply,léonie.

Nope, only one name. In Photos, so far I have not seen the problem you describe, but I am familiar with it. In iPhoto I had multiple variants for several names.

I have tried several variant of the Rules, such as using <is> or <begins with> in place of <includes>. No change.

I suspect the error may be related to the large number of Face exemplars. I think that with smaller numbers the Smart Rules may work correctly.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced similar issues with Smart Albums.

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