Comments on: Reset iPhoto ’09 face recognition database

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:10:40 +0000

Thank you everyone, so much!

By: fred

fred — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:39:44 +0000

you can delete single faces by dragging them to the trash in iphoto. and where might these face files be found so as to delete them?

By: slcoss

slcoss — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:01:00 +0000

You can indeed delete faces individually, I think Command+Delete does the trick, don’t really know if it deletes databases or just stops the face from showing up…

By: Jakob

Jakob — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:44:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Any optimization of iPhoto is good. It’s sooo slow.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:21:07 +0000

Just a correction, the files seem to be face_blob.db and faces.db. Thanks for the tip however, it was very helpful.

By: Rickard

Rickard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:13:16 +0000

I doubt it, Sandro. You would have to edit the faces database for that. It’s probably doable, but it would involve a lot of trickery.

By: Sandro

Sandro — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:24:55 +0000

Ok. What about deleting just a few faces? Is there a possibility? Any suggestion? Thanks

By: pvito

pvito — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:26:49 +0000

Indeed, thank you Mange!

Should be noted that you need to right-click on the iPhoto Library and select “Show Package Contents” in order to view/remove these .db files.

By: Rickard

Rickard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:12:57 +0000

That did indeed do the trick. Thanks!

By: Mange

Mange — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:24:36 +0000

Quit, remove the files “faces_blob.db” and “faces.db” from the iPhoto library, and restart. Should do the trick.