jimmysub

Q: faces in iPhoto

how can I turn off faces. I have about 100,000 face files that I don't want or need

OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Jul 14, 2016 2:42 PM

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  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jul 14, 2016 3:26 PM in response to jimmysub
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    Jul 14, 2016 3:26 PM in response to jimmysub

    A poster called lopezio claims the following will do the job:

     

    This is how you can disable (turn off) Face detection, without deleting faces found so far (just in case you want to restart processing at another time):

     

    1. Quit iPhoto

    2. Open Terminal Application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

    3. Type the following (exactly as is):

     

    defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0

     

    (then return)

     

    4. - Start iPhoto - Faces stops getting on your nerves...

     

    If you ever need to re-enable faces, just do the same again and replace the 0 with 1.

     

    I've not tested this so I'd offer a significant warning to back up first and even if it does work then to be wary if you're updating or upgrading as it may have an impact there too.