Q: PHOTOS face detection (macOS Sierra)
Hello,
I have upgraded to macOS Sierra and was aware that PHOTOS will take a while to scan (face detection) all photos as I have over 35.000 pics in my library. However I have reached the point where nothing seem to happen any longer. If I click on the "People" section it is stated that 23,880 photos have been already scannt and 12,047 have to be scanned to complete the process. The number of still to be scanned photos is not changing. I have restarted my MacBook. I have closed the program and kept the MacBook running over night but nothing is happening.
Has somebody an idea how I can force PHOTOS to continue with the picture scan / face detection? Or is there maybe a log which states what the issue is?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), macOS Sierra (10.12)
Posted on Sep 29, 2016 12:10 AM
I found the solution for my issue. Somehow in the photo library the flag was set to optimize the disk space of my MacBook (wasn't the case before the upgrade to Sierra). About 12000 pictures were already locally removed. Seems that exactly these pictures have been the ones which could not be any longer scanned. After changing the settings the face detection started to continue with the scan.
Posted on Sep 29, 2016 5:27 AM