Hi Andrey, the process I’ve been going through is:
1) Scan physical photos which provides a default filename.
2) Manually edit each filename and add, date, who, what, where
3) I then discovered or searched for a facial recognition application and chose Tonfontos to help me find and recognize people I barely knew or a relative said this is “John Smith” but John Smith looks different in many photos or the photos are spread over decades and it’s hard to tell John Smith from others often.
4) So after I started using Tonfotos, I continued my file renaming and possibly going back and editing a filename after I discovered who was in it or for ones I was unsure of.
So renaming files is part of the process I’m going through.
I did find the "Re-index file(s) option by right clicking on a photo inside of the Folders view. I tried that. It is unclear what files it is re-indexing. Is it just that file? Is it all the files in that folder on the computer? How do I get it to re-index all the files from the root directory down?
What does the “Rescan Folder” option do? I found that by right clicking on a folder name on the left pane of the Folders view.
I realize you are suggesting this can be troublesome and I should be “careful” but it’s how I’m working and the process I’m using right now.
Like I tried to say, when I went back to that photo in Tonfotos with about 75 people in it, the names had been lost of the faces I identified. When I tried to manually add a face, it didn’t work. Maybe that is because Tonfotos though the file was deleted and there really was another copy somewhere else now. Hopefully the Re-index file(s) and rescan folder options will help resolve this.
When there are only a few images that contain a specific person, Tonfotos has trouble finding the last few. The more images there are, the better the software does.
I remember you said that the scanning is complete when you see a Ready statement at the bottom left of the screen.
I almost always see a little person symbol followed by an Explanation Mark and then a “Ready.” text. I’m guessing that the “!” symbol means there are faces that need to be identified still and that the “Ready.” text means that the software had completed scanning of every photo from the root down?
Thank you!
