People View Not Working in Lightroom V6.14

Report · Aug 31, 2023

I enabled people view on my entire catalog and the application ran all night long indexing the photos, but I got a 'no people found' indication the next morning and the people view does not appear to be working at all now. I can manually assign names to people, but Lightroom does not make recommendations for names as the documentation suggests that it should.

Has anyone else experienced this issue and know how to resolve it? I've already tried restarting Lightroom and rebooted my PC, but those actions didn't help.

Thanks!

Report · Aug 31, 2023

Fairly sure this has not worked in v6.14 since 2020. Did it work for you recently?

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Lightroom 6.14 permanent / Issue with face recognition

Report · Aug 31, 2023

No, I just tried experimenting with this feature yesterday.

From what I've been reading, you are correct and Adobe has chosen to disable this feature after Nov 2020, or something close to that.

There is apparently a program called RunAsDate that might be able to be used to make Lightroom think that it is running prior to Nov 2020, which might resolve that issue, but I haven't tried that yet.

Have you heard anything about using RunAsDate being used for this issue?

Report · Aug 31, 2023

"Adobe has chosen to disable this feature after Nov 2020"

More precisely, the third-party library Adobe licensed to do face recognition contained a license that expired at the end of 2020.

The last thread @GoldingD linked to reports some people's experience with RunAsDate as well as a recipe for changing the expiration date of the library on Mac. I haven't seen a similar recipe for Windows, though it would probably be similar.

Report · Aug 31, 2023

I just tried using RunAsDate and it trashed the Lightroom 6.14 application.

Luckily, I reinstalled it and my catalog was still there.

I don't use Lightroom enough to justify the expense of moving to the subscription based version, so it is a bit annoying that Adobe would just let this facial recognition feature expire in 2020, after I paid for the application with this feature working in 2018.

Report · Aug 31, 2023

The expiration date is hardwired into LR 6.14, so to extend it, they'd have to release a LR 6.15. Who knows whether the LR team fully thought through all the implications when they first signed the contact with the the third-party provider -- I'd guess that no one on the team connected all the dots until it was too late, long after Adobe decided to do subscriptions only.

Report · Aug 31, 2023

"I just tried using RunAsDate and it trashed the Lightroom 6.14 application."

Can you give more details about what went wrong? That could help others...

Report · Aug 31, 2023

Sure. I downloaded RunAsDate and set it up to run Lightroom 6.14 using a date of November, 2019, with the 'immediate' option checked.

After clicking 'Run' in the RunAsDate application, Lightroom 6.14 launched to the splash screeen and then froze. After that, it appeared that the Lightpoint 6.14 executable disappeared completely, so I had to reinstall Lightpoint 6.14 to recover from that. The catalog was still fine, however.

Hopefully, someone in the Adobe Support Community can figure out how to get face recognition working again in Lightroom 6.14, because it is a very bad customer experience to purchase a licensed, fully functional version of Lightpoint 6.0 from Adobe in 2018, with face recognition, and then have face recognition stop working in 2020, requiring a $20 per month subscripton cost going forward to get this functionality back again.