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September 16, 2024
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Migrate Face tags from Elements to Lightroom

Hi,

After reaching 150,000 pictures, it seems that Elements is just not up to it anymore. It is very slow and crashes regularly. I thought of migrating to Lightroom, as it is made for studios and, I assume, should handle many more photos. However, over the years, I have had some 20,000 faces that I painstakingly tagged in Elements, and it would be quite a disaster if I lost this data. Since there are no clear instructions on whether face recognition data is imported during the migration or if there is any third-party tool to accomplish this without losing my data, I thought to ask if anyone has experience doing this and can give me some advice on how to go about it. I would be very happy for any tips and tricks to do this.

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Greg_S.
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September 17, 2024

Which version of Elements are you using?  If you are using 2023 or 2024, the speed issue may be related to auto-synching with the Elements Web.  I have over 270,000 media files in my catalog and probably have several family members with face stacks that are close to 20,000 images each.  I have turned off auto-synching with the Elements Web and have no performance issues.

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