What is happening when I use the “rescan folder” command? I went through all my pictures, and I had assigned an “ignore this face” to all the undesired faces in my pictures. I moved some pictures from one folder to another, so I hit the rescan folder command thinking it would go back through and adjust the .ini file for each folder accordingly. It now seems all faces that I told it to ignore have now re-appeared as suggestions but the faces I had assigned names to are still correct.

Was this supposed to happen, or did I do something else to cause this to happen? I have over 30,000 pictures and I don’t want to make this mistake again.

So, my questions.

  1. If I choose to rescan the root folder containing the library of my pictures, is it going to re-examine all the pictures and re-suggest faces in all pictures?

  2. When I choose to rescan an individual folder in the library, is it going to re-examine only the pictures in that sub-folder and re-suggest faces.

    Steve Ohio If I choose to rescan the root folder containing the library of my pictures, is it going to re-examine all the pictures and re-suggest faces in all pictures?

    This button only looks for changes in selected folder. Typically that would happen anyway during regular rescan, but with that button you can rescan selected folder right now.

    Steve Ohio When I choose to rescan an individual folder in the library, is it going to re-examine only the pictures in that sub-folder and re-suggest faces.

    No. It will only look for changes. And if there are new files - it will do full analysis of them, including face recognition. But for files that did not change it will do nothing. If you want to force re-index of some existing files, you should select them and do “Re-index files” command from context menu.

    The thing is, when you move file, this will constitute a change. Tonfotos detects that one file was deleted and another was added to the library at new location. And that new file undergoes all sorts of analysis, including faces detection. Theoretically, it can detect that this is the same file, just moved to another location, but right now there is no such detection mechanism.

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