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There are about 10000 images, mostly photos that Picasa has access to. According to it's status bar it was trying to index ~25000 somethings. It stopped with ~10000 whatever-they-are to go, and won't restart indexing. I know it hasn't identified every face including some very clear ones that it should have no trouble with.
Reading the help forums it seems this isn't a unique problem, especially for people with large photo collections. There is a possibility that once all existing faces are assigned it will restart indexing. I have a hunch it reached about 10000.
There are 2104 left to do - I can't remember if I saw 8000+ at one stage or only 6000+ but I was assigning while it was still indexing. So I assigned 4-8000 faces yesterday. (It's suggestion and grouping features still leave much to be desired. There is no quick way to recover from mis-labelling a face, But the effective autocomplete feature makes labelling so much faster.)
There's still the question of retaining this data over my planned New Years system wipe & reinstall. But at least I have a feel for how long it will take if I have to do it all over again.
On the one hand this is proof that I can still focus obscenely on a project that interests me (or perhaps that just triggers my OCD) and it's gratifying that my brain has been able to drag quite a few names up from the murky past (while only 2008/2009 KAOS pics are in the system I have family and gaming (SAGA/OURS/KapCon) collections stretching back to the early 2000s)
On the other hand
- My spine is feeling quite compressed from the hours I put in yesterday, although I managed to retain fairly good posture for the day (I think)
- The photos include Kaye & Martyn's wedding, which was an uneccessariy bittersweet reminder this close to the anniversary of their accident
- Plowing through faces brings ... unhelpful associations as well as good. In particular repeatedly seeing the faces of various women I've been attracted to over the years is not having a positive effect on my state of mind.
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The Creative Space BBQ is this afternoon - I'm not really sure I'm up to going out and socialising with a bunch of people I barely know but it will get me out of the house.
Reading the help forums it seems this isn't a unique problem, especially for people with large photo collections. There is a possibility that once all existing faces are assigned it will restart indexing. I have a hunch it reached about 10000.
There are 2104 left to do - I can't remember if I saw 8000+ at one stage or only 6000+ but I was assigning while it was still indexing. So I assigned 4-8000 faces yesterday. (It's suggestion and grouping features still leave much to be desired. There is no quick way to recover from mis-labelling a face, But the effective autocomplete feature makes labelling so much faster.)
There's still the question of retaining this data over my planned New Years system wipe & reinstall. But at least I have a feel for how long it will take if I have to do it all over again.
On the one hand this is proof that I can still focus obscenely on a project that interests me (or perhaps that just triggers my OCD) and it's gratifying that my brain has been able to drag quite a few names up from the murky past (while only 2008/2009 KAOS pics are in the system I have family and gaming (SAGA/OURS/KapCon) collections stretching back to the early 2000s)
On the other hand
- My spine is feeling quite compressed from the hours I put in yesterday, although I managed to retain fairly good posture for the day (I think)
- The photos include Kaye & Martyn's wedding, which was an uneccessariy bittersweet reminder this close to the anniversary of their accident
- Plowing through faces brings ... unhelpful associations as well as good. In particular repeatedly seeing the faces of various women I've been attracted to over the years is not having a positive effect on my state of mind.
~~~
The Creative Space BBQ is this afternoon - I'm not really sure I'm up to going out and socialising with a bunch of people I barely know but it will get me out of the house.
