crouser, thanks for the tips.  I've been using LR6 for just a few days.  As you mentioned, I found that pausing the face search on the entire catalog helps performance while editing. I will go to your blog for your other helpful tips. ... View more

edgduke, thanks for the reply.  Adding names to faces in the past was something I often forgot to do.  Now, we have a way to find those faces.  Right now they are a boatload of ?'s. LOL.  My wife thinks I spend too much time in front of the computer, too.  She will be pleasantly surprised when I can quickly find images of the kids and grandkids. I was looking for a way to improve performance when working on images.  When the Face Detection under the Identity Plate is paused, the CPU core usage drops to a much lower level.  So, I think Face Recognition stops looking at ALL the images that have been imported over time.  The 'pausing" let LR6 work a little faster.  In the paused state, the People icon below the grid activates "Detecting Faces in Filmstrip".  The People grid appears and populates with faces from the selected folder.  The CPU usage goes way up.  After editing names and deleting unwanted "face areas", the CPU usage goes way down. It seems that the computer must stay running while scanning all the images to the very end.  I was about halfway through 254K images and shutdown.  On the next opening of LR, it started scanning all 254K again. Yikes! ... View more

Face recognition can be paused.  Hover the cursor over your Identity Plate, top left corner of the corner of the screen.  Click the ID plate. Options appear to pause Face Recognition and Address Lookup.  ... View more