<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">This is a new setting in 8.7. I came across it about a month ago. See the snippet from a conversation about it in this group. The documentation is now up-to-date, but it can take a veteran user by surprise.<div><br></div><div>Carol<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi all,<br><br>The option is now documented in the online handbook:<br><a href="https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/019819089de0c471f2c2d0031f71c2f79bc2de0f">https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/019819089de0c471f2c2d0031f71c2f79bc2de0f</a><br><br>Best regards<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br><br>Le sam. 12 juil. 2025 à 23:33, Carol C. Kankelborg<br><<a href="mailto:cckborg2@kankelborg.net">cckborg2@kankelborg.net</a>> a écrit :<br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>Charlie,<br> Thank you for that tip. I guess the setting must be turned on in the new update. I turned off enabling background face recognition scan and things are back to behaving as I expect them to be.<br><br>Carol<br><br>On Jul 12, 2025, at 14:24, Charlie Gorichanaz <<a href="mailto:charlie@gorichanaz.com">charlie@gorichanaz.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hi Carol,<br><br>It sounds like an issue I ran into as well. I had to uncheck Misc > Behavior > Enable background face recognition scan. The tool tip says "Set this option to automatically start a new background face recognition scan when a new face is tagged." I don't see that item documented at <a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#scan-operations">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#scan-operations</a> but it does appear in that screenshot.<br><br>—<br>Charlie Gorichanaz<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 16, 2025, at 16:23, Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hi,<br><br>I'm a long-time DK user. I recently upgraded from 8.6 to 8.7 (my system runs <br>debian linux) and there seems to be some behaviour change I didn't expect. I <br>wonder if I've got some setting messed up? <br><br>I was using face detect/recognition extensively with DK 8.6. I didn't modify <br>any setting when I began using DK 8.7. Today I opened the "Unconfirmed" set of <br>people tags. I confirmed a few faces on-by-one. Then I selected four faces by <br>holding shift and left mouse click a range. When I confirmed those four, a new <br>"Face Scanning" run kicked off.<br><br>Actually, it might be a timing thing rather than the number of confirmed faces. <br>Just now, I did a single one, then waited; about 10 seconds later face <br>scanning kicked off again.<br><br>Q1: is this new behaviour? Is it related to some setting I might have <br>inadvertently set? Or a holdover from 8.6->8.7 update?<br><br>Q2: the scan takes a minute or two at present. Is it safe to continue <br>confirming faces while it runs? <br><br>Thanks,<br>-Steve<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>