Q: faces recognition after reinstall of Yosemite
Hello all,
I´ll try to explain my case. For security reasons I have been forced to reinstall from scratch my Yosemite installation in my mac mini 2012. In previous instalation I had a collection of about 20.000 pictures with faces recognized in almost all of them. The search for a face name worked flawlessly both in OS X and iOS, so the face recognition was fine.
After reinstall Yosemite in the mac mini (my only computer), started Photos again and the program downloaded the full collection of 20.000 pictures without problems (just some time for complete..) BUT the faces album that was in my previously installation of Yosemite is empty in the new one. I waited some days for a sync problem but it seems there is no problem, simply the faces are not recovered. BUT, If I search for a face name (as I used to do previous to reinstall) the search is correct and all the faces of that persons are show. Simply the Faces album keeps empty and I can´t sign name to faces of new photos I take.
What should I do? start again from scratch the faces album.... (not very happy with this solution)
Is there a way to recover Faces already recognized in Photos app?
Thanx for your support and sorry for my poor English.
Sergio
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Aug 17, 2015 1:36 PM
After reinstall Yosemite in the mac mini (my only computer), started Photos again and the program downloaded the full collection of 20.000 pictures without problems (just some time for complete..) BUT the faces album that was in my previously installation of Yosemite is empty in the new one. I waited some days for a sync problem but it seems there is no problem, simply the faces are not recovered. BUT, If I search for a face name (as I used to do previous to reinstall) the search is correct and all the faces of that persons are show. Simply the Faces album keeps empty and I can´t sign name to faces of new photos I take.
Do you use iCloud Photo Library? Did Photos download the photos again from iCloud Photo Library after you reinstalled the system? iCloud Photo Library keeps most data from your Photos Library, but not the faces thumbnails and the Faces album, only searchable faces keywords. It will be like syncing the library between two Macs, as described here: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support
You will have to tag the faces again,or restore the Photos Library from a previous backup before you reinstalled the system. The searchable keywords will help to speed up the reassignment of faces.
Posted on Aug 17, 2015 4:24 PM
