batch removing people incorrectly identified and now showing up as confirmed

[andrew.in.boston]

I mistakenly identified the wrong person.  So now there are 20+ photos with the wrong name.   This is showing up in the "confirmed" section.  How do I remove the name from this group of photos?  I was hoping that I could drag all these photos from "confirmed" to "similar," but that does not work.

[johnrellis]

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"there are 20+ photos with the wrong name."

Go to People view. Right-click the thumbnail for the wrongly identified person and do Move To Unnamed People:

[andrew.in.boston]

In my scenario, to provide additional detail, I have 90 faces identified with the name e.g. "Jane."  However about 20 photos are incorrectly identified.  In the solution provided, that would remove "Jane" entirely frrom all 90 faces. i would like to retain the 70 that are correctly identified and just remove, with one operation the 20 photos that are incorrectly identified.

[johnrellis]

"I would like to retain the 70 that are correctly identified and just remove, with one operation the 20 photos that are incorrectly identified."

1. Make a catalog backup, a good thing to do before you start any bulk operation on catalog organization that you haven't done before.

2. Put those 20 photos in the Quick Collection.

3. Select the Quick Collection. 

4. Go to People view.

5. Right-click the thumbnail for the wrongly identified person and do Move To Unnamed People. Only those 20 photos will be affected.

Note that you used to be able to simply remove the associated person keyword for Jane from those 20 photos, and the name assigned to their face rectangles would get replaced with "?".  But I just discovered that several years ago, that broke in a way that will leave your catalog in an inconsistent state -- DON'T DO IT.  (I will be filing a bug report.)

[Andrew27295921fvrd]

Wow this works and never knew you could use Quick Collection in this fashion!  Thank you.

[johnrellis]

Here's the promised bug report about trying to remove a person keyword from a photo:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/removing-a-person-keyword-fails-to-remove-the-...

[andrew.in.boston]

Here's a screenshot of what I would like to do.  The emojis with the tongue sticking out have been labeled as "Jane."  I would like to be able to select several of these and drag this to "Similar."  However I get a message "Dragging not supported here."

[johnrellis]

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"The emojis with the tongue sticking out have been labeled as "Jane."  I would like to be able to select several of these and drag this to "Similar."  However I get a message "Dragging not supported here.""

Dragging would make sense. I also tried double-clicking the face thumbnail in People view to show the individual faces assigned to Jane, then selecting a subset of those faces, and trying to right-click Move To Unnamed People.  But that command is greyed out:

Removing the person keyword from the selected photos would be the simplest method, but as discussed, that's been broken since LR 12.2.