Lightroom 6.14 permanent / Issue with face recognition

[Oli5FD8]

Hello,

User of a Lightroom historic for long times, I discovered the face recognition feature recently. Very useful. So that I updated my catalog, revieing thousands of pictures.

After an issue happened with my computer I had re-install Lightroom software and re-enable the licence with Adobe support.

Now, I'm suffering some problem that seems to happen regarding this face recognition feature :

- Using the usual catalog, where many recognitions were performed, I can navigate to folders/view, but as soon as I click on the "people" view icon, the software shutdown immediately with no error message.

- I tried to create a brand new catalog and importing some photos with success, but in that case the face recognition does not detect any face at all...

Has any one suffer these problems?

Is there an way to check integrity of software and/or catalogue?

Regards,

Oli

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[JP Hess]

In the Lightroom menu system, under catalog settings, regardless of how often you have things programmed to back up the catalog you can choose the option to have the catalog backed up the next time Lightroom exits. One of the options is to test the integrity of the catalog. I don't know of any option to test the integrity of the Lightroom software. If you suspect a problem with Lightroom itself you could consider resetting the preferences to see if that would make a difference.

[Oli5FD8]

Thanks for your answer.

Integrity test option does not change anything. Issue appear on new catalogue too with this feature.

How do you reset preference?

I can add that a "catalog-file-name.lrcat-journal" is created when it does crash with no clue inside about error/recommandation solving.

Is there any Adobe additional troubleshooter tools to solve this issue?

[dj_paige]

Many people have reported this problem with People view in Lightroom 6. It may be that the license to use the people recognition algorithm has expired, or it may be some other bug. In any case, Adobe will not be fixing this in Lightroom 6. People view still works properly in the current version of the software (LrC 10.1) and you can certainly upgrade.

[Oli5FD8]

Last test I made is removing the files with ".agprefs" extension.

Now at launch, Lightroom considers a new fresh start with no previous preferences set.

I created a new catalogue and select the option to enable face recognition on all the catalogue.

Then I imported some files with some people faces inside.

The progress bar showed some people search on going. 

At the end, it was said, no people were found!

This feature used to work well on this workstation before calling the Adobe support about an issue on licence activation (pop-up).

[Oli5FD8]

Got a permanent licence with Lightroom 6 and sadly got no money to spend on any upgrade.

When saying, "the license to use the people recognition algorithm has expired"

you mean that it's not part of the same licence?

[dj_paige]

I am reporting what I have read elsewhere. I assume that Adobe licenses the software from someone else, and that license has expired, but I certainly don't have any inside knowledge of this matter.

Here's a possible solution: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/lightroom-6-14-crashes-when-trying-to-delete-photos...

[Oli5FD8]

It seems that is a known issue (now), and of course known by the support BUT not shared when a user is spending more than one a hour discussing with them. It's really a shame for this company.

This article (adobe-lightroom-v6-is-falling-apart) is a good start to understand.

[cachc6sous]

Try to change your system date, last year for instance. Everything works then. It's an obvious obsolescence program. They need to be prosecute for that

[Oli5FD8]

Going back in time would impact other part of the system...

[Oli5FD8]

I can confirm the tips does work.

[vincentp64069963]

Hello

I may be late for this but for whoever is still using lightroom 6.x (like I do), I have found a workaround to make the face detection work again.

You can download a tool called RunAsDate provided by NirSoft : https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

(Nirsoft tools are known to be safe, but you can use any antivirus software you want against runAsDate, just to be sure)

This tool will let you run lightroom (or any other program) with a date that's different from the system date, *without* actually changing your system date.  (changing the system date is a very bad idea, and will have a lot of impact on many systems, websites, etc).

So if you run this program, set a date that's before Nov 2020 (I chose 2019), then the face detection works again.

Note : I'm not responsible for any unwanted behavior caused by this program/method.

I haven't fully tested lightroom with this method, so there may be side effects that I haven't seen so far.

[cachc6sous]

For thoose who are still trying to fix it 🙂

I found that :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightroom/comments/knjkk0/lightroom_6xx_facial_recognition_causing_app/

it seems to work on windows, unfortunatly not on mac os version.

If someone finds something for mac ...

[cachc6sous]

Great news for Mac users I think I have it :

open libfrsdk-8.6.0.so with hex fiend for instance ( ⁨Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe Lightroom⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe Lightroom.app⁩ ▸ ⁨Contents⁩ ▸ ⁨Frameworks⁩ ▸ ⁨CIT⁩ ▸ ⁨Plug-ins⁩ ▸ ⁨FaceRecognition⁩ ▸ ⁨FaceRecognitionCognitec.bundle⁩ ▸ ⁨Contents⁩ ▸ ⁨Resources)

search for 48 8D 3D 62 22 88 00 hex string and replace with 48 8D 3D 64 22 88 00

It works for me with 56000 photos no crash anymore and no need to change system date 😉

Only drawback is when I import a new photo, LR detects a face but doesn't provide a name. But I can still put a name so it's fine for me.

Maybe an other value allows this to work but it's ok for me.

If someone is interested I use cutter to open the file and search for anything that rings a bell (that was the first time I reverse something)

So happy !!

of course if you do this save everything before 😉