Re: Face Recognition Keeps Re-launching 8.7.0

Hi Carol,

It sounds like an issue I ran into as well. I had to uncheck Misc >
Behavior > Enable background face recognition scan. The tool tip says "Set
this option to automatically start a new background face recognition scan
when a new face is tagged."  I don't see that item documented at
https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#scan-operations
but it does appear in that screenshot.

—
Charlie Gorichanaz


On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM Carol C. Kankelborg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I finally noticed 8.7.0 (Git Revision 4a1f7f83, MacOS Sonoma 14.7.6)
> is out, so I downloaded it and ran a full face scan/recognition process. My
> settings are as follows:
>
> Search In: All Albums
> Workflow: Scan all images
> Face Detection Accuracy: Default
> Face Size: Medium
> Face Recognition Settings: Default
> Work on all processor cores: Checked
>
> I ran the scan for my nearly 100K images. it took it abotu 8–10 hours.
> After the process competed, I clicked on a name and confirmed some images.
> The scan/recognize process started all over again.
> I changed the settings to Search in No Albums and only scan new images but
> did not run a new scan. I quit and restarted.
> The same thing happened when I started DigiKam again and confirmed a few
> more faces.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Should I report it as a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
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