Duplicate ghost people names

MelFish

I have recently discovered some problems with running two windows pc’s accessing the same SSD drive containing my files located on one of the computers.
Although the first computer shows current what I belive are proper recognitions for the people files, the 2nd pc after scanning all the same folders only shows a much smaller amount of the recognized pictures.
i.e Joe Smith on computer one has 4567 identified photos but only 62 photos idenified on computer two. At one point computer two had show over 4000 identified photos and then all of a sudden the numbers all changed.
I have disconected computer two as I am concerned that the may be competative data being written to the software.
i.e
We have now also noticed duplicate names on computer number one that either do not have any photos and/or do not give us the option of merging the two names.
–name one will have identified photos showing but name two will not have any.
–Sometime we have three identical names
Also
–Sometime the 2nd or third name is ghosted and empty and again not mergeable

Any help would be appreciated

Andrey

MelFish some investigation is needes, as there could be multiple reasons.

Is your archive reand-only? Please check if computer 1 can write ini files, otherwise people information sync will not work
Please check if faces are succesfully recognized on computer two. Just take one image of Joe Smith that is tagged on computer 1 but is not on computer 2 and chech if there is a face identified on a photo in computer 2. If there is no face, this can be CUDA issue. Some users reproted that when istalling CUDA many faces fail to be recognized. Removing CUDA plugin and re-indexing solves that issue.
If however faces area found, but not properly assigned, first you need to wait till indexing is complete, and then merge all duplicate names of the same person (don’t delete, just merge) That should solve the problem.

MelFish

Thanks
It appears thet the folders are read only.
Except
I have been trying to change the attributes on the folders from read only on windows 10, but have not been able to do so. According to the information on the internet this is a challenge on windows.

I right click on the main folder and remove the checkmark on the read only box.
I follow up as per the windows proceedure and it appears that I have changed the read only to allow changes and it appears to work..
However
When I once again right click on the folder properties box again the read only box is still checked
I have even tried by using the command line attrib commands with no luck.
Nothing sticks.
Any assitance would be appreciated

Best

Mel

Andrey

MelFish you are correct, rights management in Windows can be tricky, and this is not only about “read-only” attribute, there are also per-user access permissions. Plus, it may also depends on the file system type, and on top of that, there could be another layer of permission control imposed by network protocol, if this is shared folder.

I don’t think we are in the position to provide you complete detailed step by step instruction on how to deal with this issue, since, as I said, this is complicated topic with lots of “it-then”. Sure there are tons of guides on that in the internet, but to be honest the easiest way would be to ask help from someone who can actually take a look at your system and see what is whong.