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I created a monster : reset faces in Photos

Hi all,


I got something very weird in Photos (the latest one for High Sierra and iOS11 -- iCloud photo library is activated on all devices)

1/ I think 3 faces have been merged by mistake : let's say "Eric", "Tim" merged into "John" face

2/ Only John remains but it's totally irrelevant (mixed pictures of 3 different people).

3/ I've decided to reset John : select All pictures and remove the face ("John is not in these pictures")


I got a situation where i have no more Eric, or Tim, or John

- I've then named Eric and Tim faces back in their pictures: I was considering that I would teach their faces again to Photos

--> Problem : Photo automatically merges Eric & Tim and names them John !

--> Even if -in this situation- John face did not exist from me (remove at stept3 above) but Photos renames Eric & Tim by its own to Jonh


Is there any way to reset the entire Face database : I would prefer setting everyone back instead of fighting with this AI ...


Yoann

Posted on Nov 12, 2017 1:00 AM

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Posted on Nov 13, 2017 11:00 AM

removing a face from the Faces screen (with "remove all" or "remove this person") seems to remove the shortcut from the Faces screen but not remove the face information from the picture it self

That is the hitch - you can only reset the information about the detected faces, if you remove the albums for all named persons at once,The album with named people needs to be completely empty, or the faces database will not be reset. The people album must not contain a singe named person.

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I created a monster : reset faces in Photos

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