Very often users complain about the Face corruption issues particularly while working on large iPhoto libraries on Mac. Faces fail to categorize images which is causing huge issues for the users. To understand the situation let’s consider a scenario where when user clicks on the name of the toolbar the photos comes with the full size. User may find two options at the bottom, first is Add Missing Faces using which user can name many faces. But when users go to the cork board it says no faces found followed by an intro screen which is not the same as mentioned in the tutorial.
In this situation the Faces need to be scanned in the iPhoto Library. But doing this will loose the entire work done with the faces. The steps that user need to go through are as follows –
- Quit iPhoto
- Go to your Pictures Folder or where the library is actually kept
- Right Click on it and from the resulting menu section select the “Show Package Contents”. A Finder window will open and the Library will be exposed
- Find these files: face_blob.db and face.db
- Move these to trash
- Now make no changes and restart iPhoto
- Then allow it to complete the face scan again.
In most of the cases after performing the above mentioned steps face corruption issue gets resolved, but if it doesn’t then the only way to resolve the issue is by using iPhoto Library Recovery software which will effectively resolve the issue in seconds.