Windows 10: How to rescan local folders for faces in Microsoft Photos

Hello,


I have previously added local drive folders into Microsoft Photos, which have successfully had faces scanned and added under the 'People' tab. Some of the folders have new photos being added in a regular basis. Although these photos are being successfully found under the 'Collection' tab, it does not seem to and scan and recognise new faces that are in the photos, in order to be added under the 'People' tab.


Is there a way of rescanning the previously added local drive folders for new faces, so they may be assigned to previously added people?

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How to rescan local folders for faces in Microsoft Photos

Hello,

I have previously added local drive folders into Microsoft Photos, which have successfully had faces scanned and added under the 'People' tab. Some of the folders have new photos being added in a regular basis. Although these photos are being successfully
found under the 'Collection' tab, it does not seem to and scan and recognise new faces that are in the photos, in order to be added under the 'People' tab.

Is there a way of rescanning the previously added local drive folders for new faces, so they may be assigned to previously added people?

 

How to rescan local folders for faces in Microsoft Photos

Hi PaulP2099

I'll try to help you on this question.

As far as I know, the face recognition is still in development. So it may not be perfectly implemented.

By the way, I've found something to try, that may help :

Turn off and back on Peoples setting in Microsoft Photos App

- Open Photos.

- Click on three dots in top right.

- Open Settings.

- Turn off the People option where is says:

People

Allow people in your photos and videos to be named and grouped and for this data to be stored on your device by turning on face detection and recognition.

Wait a couple minutes, then reboot.

Repeat and turn back on, wait for re-indexing.

I hope this helps

Regards

 

Windows 10 Photos app face recognition problems

Hello,

I already posted my problem on the official Windows forums in April this year but MS staff are apparently not very keen on solving issues and helping their paying customers. They sent one standard response and did not respond further. Box ticked, next, I guess..

Hopefully someone on this forum has any suggestions. Since I posted the below, I have done more reinstalls of the Photo app, did a reset of the 'people' app, renamed the photo folder and had the photos app rescan it, and had the computer on for days without even looking at it, but the problem persists..

Original message:

I recently switched to Windows 10. Clean install on a formatted disk. Everything is working perfectly but the photos app:

I pointed the photos app at my photo directory with approximately 20-30K pictures. All of these have been indexed and are visible in the 'collection' tab and the app created all kinds of albums. The face recognition functionality however is problematic as the app only detects 21 faces (interestingly almost the same group each time I tried) while there must be hundreds and it for example detects only 200 and 50 photos respectively from my kids while there should be thousands for each of them.

I tried all kinds of fixes for other issues people are having with the photos app, including:

- stop, restore and reset from the settings - apps - photos menu.

- completely removing the app with the powershell command and reinstalling a fresh copy from the windows app store.

- deleting the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file from the C:\Users\X\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe folder and restart the app in order to have it rebuild the index / dbase and completely deleting the content of this folder.

Since the last reinstall my computer has been running non-stop (with energy saving for the hdds switched off in case this would make a difference) for almost three days but the number of faces for a limited amount of persons is the same as after the initial couple of hours and the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file seems to no longer increase in size, so I get the impression that the face recognition process is simply stuck. Initially this happened when it reached appr 20 faces and at that stage the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file is approximately 400MB. My latest two attempt led to only 4 faces with 163, 23, 8 and 2 photos respectively and again a MediaDb.v1.sqlite of almost 400MB.

Many thanks