I am using Lightroom Classic v14.2 on Win 10, with no automatic face detection enabled in preferences. By accident I pressed something on keyboard and got served the face detection menu where both of the options basically start the face detection process, which I personally think is a very bad design choice. After choosing the lesser evil option for face detection only when i want it, the LR started churning the disk and trying to detect faces in the folder I was in (about 4k pictures from a carnival). There was no way to stop it, as the process line (near the identity plate) had no pause or X button to kill it. The process went on for about 4 hours, during which time I was completely unable to work in LR, as it was freezing whenever I tried to click on anything. Needless to say, I am quite unhappy with the event where I can't opt out or stop a background process that makes the whole LR unusable for hours.
Have I missed some way to kill it? I searched online forums and adobe help and the only provided options were to turn off face detection in catalog preferences (it was never turned on in the first place, and toggling it on and off did nothing), or to press pause near identity plate, where of course there was no pause button or X associated with the process line.
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