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  Disabling face recognition in iPhoto JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-19 03:11 -0400
    Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-19 20:58 +0000
      Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-20 03:20 -0400
        Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto android <here@there.was> - 2015-10-20 10:40 +0200
        Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-20 11:28 +0000
          Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-20 20:53 -0400
            Re: Disabling face recognition in iPhoto Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-21 18:57 +0000

#83789 — Disabling face recognition in iPhoto

To disable face recognition in iPhoto :

defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0


Tested and it works on iPhoto 9.6.1 . You need to restart iPhoto after
the change.


The "unnamed" tag no longer appears next to faces in crowds, or any
other picture. That was really annoying.

(note, I used sudo for the command, never sure if defaults write needs
privs or can be done by normal user)

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#83832

On 2015-10-19, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> To disable face recognition in iPhoto :

That would be an incredibly silly idea for most Apple customers. The
Faces feature is extremely powerful and useful for quickly finding
photos with certain people in them.

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#83856

On 2015-10-19 16:58, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2015-10-19, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>> To disable face recognition in iPhoto :
> 
> That would be an incredibly silly idea for most Apple customers.


Crowd photos become littered with "unknown" tags pointing to ever face.
Like an incomplete NSA piece of software that isn't attached to their
face database so it can't name everyone in a crowd.

Without knowing realising this, iPhoto created thousands of files in the
faces database folder pointing to uidentified faces. Waste of disk space
and catalogue space.

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#83858

In article <5625eb29$0$57922$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-10-19 16:58, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-10-19, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> To disable face recognition in iPhoto :
> > 
> > That would be an incredibly silly idea for most Apple customers.
> 
> 
> Crowd photos become littered with "unknown" tags pointing to ever face.
> Like an incomplete NSA piece of software that isn't attached to their
> face database so it can't name everyone in a crowd.

Well, the FB APIs are known to have undocumented code that can create 
such embarrassments. Don't give up. Join hands and you can make it 
happen, or something!
> 
> Without knowing realising this, iPhoto created thousands of files in the
> faces database folder pointing to uidentified faces. Waste of disk space
> and catalogue space.

That is what YOU think!
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#83861

In message <5625eb29$0$57922$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com> 
  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-19 16:58, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2015-10-19, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> To disable face recognition in iPhoto :
>> 
>> That would be an incredibly silly idea for most Apple customers.


> Crowd photos become littered with "unknown" tags pointing to ever face.
> Like an incomplete NSA piece of software that isn't attached to their
> face database so it can't name everyone in a crowd.

Waa Waa Waa. Click 'x' to remove unknown faces. End of problem.

> Without knowing realising this, iPhoto created thousands of files in the
> faces database folder pointing to uidentified faces. Waste of disk space
> and catalogue space.

You, AGAIN, make shit up. There are no *files* in the faces database,
you numpty buffoon.


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#83881

On 2015-10-20 07:28, Lewis wrote:

> You, AGAIN, make shit up. There are no *files* in the faces database,
> you numpty buffoon.


iPhoto Library/Database/Faces

Look in each subdirectory. Tell me there are no files.

I had thousands in "Detected".

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#83900

On 2015-10-21, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-20 07:28, Lewis wrote:
>
>> You, AGAIN, make shit up. There are no *files* in the faces database,
>> you numpty buffoon.
>
> iPhoto Library/Database/Faces
>
> Look in each subdirectory. Tell me there are no files.
>
> I had thousands in "Detected".

# du -cksh ~/Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/Database/Faces
 27M	total

As usual, you make a big deal about nothing.

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