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Q: Photos 2.0 - Removing People instead of Hiding them

I have been working with the People feature in Photos 2.0 under macOS Sierra.

 

While in the People library I click the Add People + icon at the bottom.

 

I click on a person's face and if that person does not need to be named in my library I remove all the insignificant faces (clicking the "X" on the face circle) in the photos.  What this causes is a bunch of blank boxes with numbers under them when I go back to the Add Person screen.  If I click the blank box nothing comes up.

 

I thought I would just hide these empty boxes, but was wondering if there was just a way of getting rid of the empty boxes?  I looked through the help docs, but that didn't give me any information on this particular issue.  I've also tried searching this community without any specific information coming for this particular situation.

 

Specific Steps to follow:

 

Launch Photos

Click People in the left side bar

Scroll to the bottom of the window on the right

Click the Add People icon with the plus symbol

Select a person you don't care to have named in your library

Click the blue Add button in the upper right corner

Double click the newly added person

Double click a photo with the unnamed person

Click the X that is on the circle around that person's face

 

After doing the above to all the photos with that person's face, click the back arrow in the upper left corner

Sometimes the persons face remains with a number below it, other times it turns to an empty box with numbers under it.  In any case, if you click the Add icon again, you will now see blank boxes with numbers under them.

 

I appreciate any help on this.

 

Tom

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Sierra (10.12), iMac17,1 Core i7 4.0ghZ

Posted on Oct 11, 2016 10:56 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 11, 2016 12:58 PM in response to HonoBosn
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    Oct 11, 2016 12:58 PM in response to HonoBosn

    My current solution is to wait for a bug fix. It is not normal, that we cannot remove faces circles without creating blank person thumbnails in the People album.

     

    I joined all blank white faces into one person called "Delete", but I did not hide this blank person.  Hiding has an undesired effect - any photo with a hidden person in it will not be used in any memory. I do not hide any person, unless I want all photos of this person to be hidden as well.