Comments on: Apple iPhoto ‘09 Mini-Review: Faces Tell Many Stories

By: LeahyPhoto

LeahyPhoto — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:53:54 +0000

I split the data into three libraries of 5000 max. I use iPhotLibraryManager to switch between them and all is well

By: LeahyPhoto

LeahyPhoto — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:53:54 +0000

I split the data into three libraries of 5000 max. I use iPhotLibraryManager to switch between them and all is well

By: Glenn Batuyong

Glenn Batuyong — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:40:58 +0000

I've noticed that the console has been recording something about the “truth” being “vacuumed” in random times after the 10.5.5 update. I think this is mostly SyncServer-related…

By: LeahyPhoto

LeahyPhoto — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:36:15 +0000

iPhoto Faces Feature
It worked to begin with but now it only finds the named images and does not find even one image below the grey line that may also be the named person. I turned off show item counts and all other optional preferences. I annihilated all duplicates with Brattoo’s software, removed all non-JPGs, reduced from 16000 to 11000 images. I vacuumed the database with the following script: for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase “vacuum;”; done and nothing helped, can anyone help?

By: LeahyPhoto

LeahyPhoto — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:52:55 +0000

Type your reply…

By: leahyphoto

leahyphoto — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:25:30 +0000

'elegance comes at the slight cost of general performance'
I felt my life dripping away - see tip on acuuming and on turning off the show numbers preference

Jo

By: Glenn Batuyong

Glenn Batuyong — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:46:45 +0000

While it's true that you don't have to leave the Faces mode to set names, you might find that iPhoto doesn't always catch every match. You might have to go back to your collection and manually create face rectangles on people that should obviously be a match. Not sure why it hiccups on some pictures but nonetheless if you are sure that some pics are missing from Faces then comb through your collection and check.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:23:40 +0000

Actually, I just discovered that you don't have to leave the Faces mode once you're in it. Do'h. That's much better.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:09:31 +0000

Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Name button? That would speed up the process of going through a large number of photos considerably.

By: Glenn Batuyong

Glenn Batuyong — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:47:41 +0000

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