iCloud Photo Library and Faces

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iCloud Photo Library and Faces

I created Faces on my MacBook Photos library and this morning decided to turn on iCloud Photo Library on an iMac to store all of my originals. All the photos have copied across perfectly, but whereas Faces is still working on the MacBook, it is asking me to set it up again o the iMac...is there a way round this?

Also, I have a folder in the "My Albums" section called, "iPhoto Events" and in it are 2 dated folders of photos from my iPhone. How were these created? If I delete a photo from these streams it deletes them from all my photos. I think I can individually remove the photos from these iPhone albums but they will remain in all photos and then I can deleted the albums and folder...does that sound right?

iMac, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 2:33 AM

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léonie

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Feb 18, 2016 2:58 AM in response to Patch171

All the photos have copied across perfectly, but whereas Faces is still working on the MacBook, it is asking me to set it up again o the iMac...is there a way round this?

iCloud Photo Library is storing the searchable faces tags, but not the faces thumbnails.

if you named a face on your MacBook, you can search for this name in the search field in Photos on your iMac. The photos will be found, but the thumbnails will be missing. I would name a few faces manually on your iMac, then wait a few days for the face recognition on the iMac to find the faces thumbnails, and then use the search to quickly assign the names to the thumbnails. It will be faster than the original naming on on your MacBook, because Photosis making a good guess. See this support document: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support

Also, I have a folder in the "My Albums" section called, "iPhoto Events"

The migration created an album for each of the events you had in iPhoto or the projects you had in Aperture. (See this link: How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support) If you do not want these albums, delete the albums and then the folder. Deleting an album or a folder does not remove the photos from the library.

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