John,
yes. it appears that if you change the names to something other than
actual names (i.e. #1, #2, #3, etc.)
Then you can still use the keyword search in the proper manner.
of course, after changing the names in the Faces tab, typing "#2 #3"
in the search field does not give you photos with just #2 AND #3.
But if you use the old keywords, say John and Jane, then they are
sorted correctly.
The problem then becomes, what is faces good for? If I have to keyword
every person in a photo anyway, what's the point of using faces
(especially considering that it doesn't write to the actual photo
metadata anyway)?
Additionally, if the list gets any larger than a few people, when the
program asks "Is this person #9?" i'll have to look at the list to
make sure that it's actually the person labeled #9.
hurmph.
I may have go go back to just using keywords until Apple gets this
sorted out. The Places feature is nice, but it even runs dog slow on
my new 2.5 unibody MBP with 4GB of RAM.
***LOVE*** the new iMovie though!
Rick
On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Profile wrote:
Rick,
You are doing a great job on this, what a hunk of work. What if
you dropped the names on the cork board and listed numbers. I have
13 family members listed so if I took the names off and put 1
through 13 but their pictures remained so I would know who I was
searching for if I did a search for #3, would you then be able to
use the older Keyword search?
John
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Rick Burnett wrote:
well, after some work, I've discovered that if you remove the
individual names from the Faces cork board (thereby eliminating all
our hours of work) then the behavior goes back to the default
search of keywords.
sigh.
and iPhoto still won't write the keywords or gps info to the actual
photo unless you export (making sure to mark the correct boxes),
delete the photo from your library (to avoid duplicates) and then
reimport the (exported) photo.
As much of a hassle and workaround as this is, I'm actually
considering doing it for the majority of my photos just to be safe
and have all my tagging work protected in case of a corruption to
the iPhoto database...
rick
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Profile wrote:
Rick,
You are RIGHT! I have spent hours going through almost 5,000
pictures using the "faces" feature and am almost done. Previously
I had done as you and listed combinations of people in the
description area of the photo and could search the keywords for
just those two. I had not tried this under the new iPhoto until
your email and no matter how I fiddled with it this no longer
works. Bummer and we should complain to Apple about this so they
will add it back in, I sure intend to.
Thanks for finding this.
John
On Feb 13, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Rick Burnett wrote:
Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but this seems to be a
new
(and dumb) behavior in iPhoto 09.
In the previous version of iPhoto, I tagged everyone in my
pictures
using the keywords field.
To search for them, I could just type their name. To find a picture
with multiple people I would just type both of their names.
For example, if I wanted to find just pictures of my mom and my
sister
together, i could type "Mom" and "Sis" in the search field.
Only pictures with *both* of them in it would show up.
Now, in iPhoto 09, typing "Mom" and "Sis" shows all pictures with
*either* of them in the photo.
This is not a good way of doing things. Am I missing something?
rick
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