Picking up facial rec after power failure

[mbdp]

Hello!

I'm running Adobe Elements 15 on Windows 10 Home 64 (with the recent 4 gigabyte Creator Update installed). We've had many power outages lately. There's more than 200,000 photos in my library (migrating to a new machine, and from Picasa). I ran facial rec on Elements Organizer and  at about two hundred recognitions in the power went out. When I restarted Elements Organizer no new faces were popping up. So I turned automatic face finding off and back on again but it didn't pick up where it left off. Turned it off, relaunched the program, turned it back on, and still nothing new. Turned it off and on again, relaunched again, and still not munging faces. Is there anyway to to force EO to re scan the collection?

I'd love to avoid a reinstall. It took more than 72 hours to import the photos. Not read, scan for faces, and write to a different location; just to read from a 7,200 rpm Toshiba internal drive, and I don't want to have to go through that again, especially with power being what it is.

A lot of my photos are in both .jpg and NEF

Any advice? As I learn I'll try to feed back into the community myself.

Cheers!

Mike

[arshla jindal]

Hi,

I would suggest you try the following:

1. Go to Edit> Preferences> Media- Analysis..

2. Click on Reset Face Analysis.

3. Click OK.

4. Make sure Run Face Recognition Automatically checkbox was checked.

Restart Organizer and see if the analysis starts again.

Thanks,

Arshla

[mbdp]

Hi, Arshla!

I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I saw that option, but that would restart the entire process of checking for faces, and do away with the time already invested tagging people. That will be my last resort. I was wondering how to coax the program to pick up where it left off, so that I could pick up where I left off, not start over

Thanks again for your time and input!

~m

[arshla jindal]

Please see : Resolve facial-recognition issues

-Arshla

[mbdp]

I appreciate you finding that post. It's about an older version of Elements Organizer. I couldn't find Breeze Data for Elements 15, but found something similar. Unfortunately, change to .OLD didn't work, so I went ahead and deleted all the work previously invested in facial recognition. I had hoped the next time I started Organizer I'd see the message about scanning the library, but still, no.

I think a great feature would be a right-click menu "Scan for Faces" or an action somewhere "Scan Entire Library for Faces".  Because for now, Facial recognition has stopped, which, for the most part, makes the program somewhat useless. At least Premier Elements and Photoshop Elements work.

[mbdp · Accepted solution]

I finally found a solution, in another blog.It looks like a lot of people have had this problem. I learned too late not to delete all the previous work. Someone suggested (and it works!) to

1. Launch Elements Organizer

2. In preferences turn Automatic Facial Scanning (or whatever it's called) off

3. Exit Elements Organizer

4. Launch Elements Organizer as an Administrator

5. In preferences turn Automatic Facial Scanning (or whatever it's called) back on

6. Wait a few minutes, and eventually it should start again.

This has worked on Elements Organizer 15 in Windows 10 64bit Home Edition with the Creator Update. Elements Organizer crashes a couple of times a day, and every time it crashes (or every time the power goes out) I've had to repeat this process, but it works every time.

How to keep it from randomly crashing might be the subject of another thread.... Hope this helps somebody.