leofromlafayette
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Q: Deleting unwanted Face ID's

I managed to retain the vast majority of FACE ID's while transferring over to macOS Sierra.  I notice in the add people section there are nearly 2K for of ID'd faces very few are the same as previous FACES.  Is there an easy way to drop the ID's that I do not want in my PEOPLE's album without deleting the pictures involved?

Also, after two days the program indicates that some 20K worth of pictures have been processed and some 6K worth of pictures are still to be scanned.  The latter figure has not changed since first run.

If I manually delete all that unwanted FACE ID's -- 26K worth of pictures, will they all be redone once program start up scanned again?

Would appreciate some guidance here.

thanks,

Leo Kostizen

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 9:32 AM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
léonie léonie
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A:
It has had plenty of chances to continue but appears to be stuck.

You may not see any progress, if it simply does not find any new persons.

 

My question is once it starts up again or in the future when it is working properly will it re-FACE the same strangers regardless whether I've manually removed stranger's FACES?

That is hard to predict. If Apple changes the face recognition algorithm again, a future update or upgrade may start to scan for faces again, just like an updated RAW processing algorithm might do.

But otherwise I do not expect the faces scan to scan again the same photos already in the library.

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 1:00 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 22, 2016 9:57 AM in response to leofromlafayette
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    Sep 22, 2016 9:57 AM in response to leofromlafayette

    Is there an easy way to drop the ID's that I do not want in my PEOPLE's album without deleting the pictures involved?

    That part of the new Peoples feature does not yet work well.

    To delete the unwanted faces you would have to track the photo down in the moments, enlarge them, the click the "x" on the faces circle to delete them.  But that would be a lot of work and will result in an white, empty peoples album in your list of people. I did that a few hundred times and merged the empty thumbnails into one unnamed face, and I am now hoping for a bug fix to get rid of them. Repairing the library did not help to remove the empty persons.

    Screen Shot 2016-09-22 at 18.47.57GMT.png

    The other alternative is to let the persons you dot care about just sit around in the Add People section and ignore them, but that will make it difficult to add the people you want to add because the list is getting longer and longer.

    What you should not do is merging them into one album "Strangers". That will mess up the memories and the face recognition.

     

    You could add the strangers individually and then hide them.  But hiding persons will prevent the photo with the hidden person from being included into memories, and you may not want that either.

     

    Right now I would ignore the unwanted persons and wait for an update that fixes the problem with the empty Person thumbnails. and send feature requests to Apple for better tools to get rid of the unwanted strangers in photos showing a crowd of unknown people.

     

    Apple - Photos - Feedback

  • by leofromlafayette,

    leofromlafayette leofromlafayette Sep 22, 2016 12:43 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 22, 2016 12:43 PM in response to léonie

    Truly appreciate your help.  I will wait for an update to fix this issue.  Second part of my question perhaps was not that understandable.  Since the initial process the scanning seems to have stopped leaving 6,000 pictures to scan.  It has had plenty of chances to continue but appears to be stuck.  My question is once it starts up again or in the future when it is working properly will it re-FACE the same strangers regardless whether I've manually removed stranger's FACES?

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Sep 22, 2016 1:00 PM in response to leofromlafayette
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    Sep 22, 2016 1:00 PM in response to leofromlafayette
    It has had plenty of chances to continue but appears to be stuck.

    You may not see any progress, if it simply does not find any new persons.

     

    My question is once it starts up again or in the future when it is working properly will it re-FACE the same strangers regardless whether I've manually removed stranger's FACES?

    That is hard to predict. If Apple changes the face recognition algorithm again, a future update or upgrade may start to scan for faces again, just like an updated RAW processing algorithm might do.

    But otherwise I do not expect the faces scan to scan again the same photos already in the library.