Re: Face Recognition Keeps Re-launching 8.7.0

Gilles Caulier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user
Message-ID <CAHFG6sEAQ3wfBC8V4tfk0Fk9v3M5NbngoY2pxjA4mmctx35eCw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,

The option is now documented in the online handbook:
https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/019819089de0c471f2c2d0031f71c2f79bc2de0f

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 12 juil. 2025 à 23:33, Carol C. Kankelborg
<[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Charlie,
>    Thank you for that tip. I guess the setting must be turned on in the new update. I turned off enabling background face recognition scan and things are back to behaving as I expect them to be.
>
> Carol
>
> On Jul 12, 2025, at 14:24, Charlie Gorichanaz <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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