photos stores face pictures

In my Photos Library are hundreds of faces thumbnails, all in a subfolder resources/media/face, e.g.

~/Pictures/Photos Library Main.photoslibrary/resources/media/face/f7/00/facetile_f72c.jpeg

These facetile files are not large and do not matter, just roughly 17KB, but they are relatively new, the oldest from September 2016, the newest just from yesterday.

I guess my last post was wishful thinking.

When I saw your post, I started wishful thinking too. 😁

I do not have that many images in the Faces folder. When I search for image files, starting from the Faces folder, there are just 8542 items. So, one fifth of the photos in my library are having a faces thumbnail.

<embarrassed>😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊</embarrassed>. Oppppppppps! I missed the face folder the first time thru the package. Getting old.

I guess my last post was wishful thinking.

For a library of 51,410 photos there are...... wait for the drum roll...... over 60,378 face image files representing 2.17 GB of files for an average of 34 KB per file. So the face images represent about 2% of the library size.

My apologies, Roypd. As you've already been informed there is no way to get rid of the face image files or stop the face recognition.

Be sure to tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

Not with Photos. iPhoto used to create small face image files but Photos does not. It references the full sized photo and the location of the face in that photo in its Faces database file.

you can not - it is part of the OS and can not be modified

LN

Opps - did not see the question already answered and could not figure out how to delete the post.