Yet another « Photos face recognition not working »!
Hello there,
So, as title says, Photos on Ventura MacMini 2018 not detecting faces correctly, in fact, stuck « 0 pictures analyzed since a while.
To resume the situation:
- iMac 2017 with Ventura had my Photos Library running completely fine with « people » correctly identified;
- got a « new » MacMini 2018 and when trying to boot from my CCC backup of Ventura (to clone back the Ventura install), it looked that it couldn’t work so I simply continued the Sonoma install (version that came preconfigured on the machine);
- Sonoma wasn’t behaving really well on the Mac Mini but mainly, Photos had already a messed up library: stuck at « 0 pictures analyzed » and pics from some people gone from the « people » section;
- Left Sonoma a few days idle, not sleeping but no go in the « people » section.
Unfortunately, and for a rare occurrence, I didn’t backed up the Ventura Photo library…
- After a few days with Sonoma, I reverted back to Ventura, clean install followed by TM migration. I then had to repair (cmd option) the Photos library and it opened in Ventura but got stuck again (2-3 days) at « 0 pic analyzed »!
- I also tried to make a new library and let iCloud do the sync again but this time, it got stuck at 200 pictures remains to sync but didn’t want to complete!
Yesterday, got the old iMac, reconnected the external drive with the library, synced with iCloud. Left the computer asleep and idle overnight but 24 hours later, no progress!
I would guess that going to Sonoma then back to Ventura accompanied by the repair completely hosed the library.
Also strange that some « people/faces » are intact with all the pics but some others, missing almost all of them.
Anyway, after having read a lot of similar threads here, on Reddit and Apple Stack Exchange and trying a couple of things, it looks I am stuck!
Thanks for your time,
Mac mini, macOS 13.7
