Face Recognition Keeps Re-launching 8.7.0

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

The option is now documented in the online handbook:
https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/019819089de0c471f2c2d0031f71c2f79bc2de0f

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 12 juil. 2025 à 23:33, Carol C. Kankelborg
<cckborg2 at kankelborg.net> a écrit :
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> Charlie,
>    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.
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> Carol
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> On Jul 12, 2025, at 14:24, Charlie Gorichanaz <charlie at gorichanaz.com> wrote:
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> Hi Carol,
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> 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 https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#scan-operations but it does appear in that screenshot.
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> —
> Charlie Gorichanaz
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> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM Carol C. Kankelborg <cckborg2 at kankelborg.net> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>    I finally noticed 8.7.0 (Git Revision 4a1f7f83, MacOS Sonoma 14.7.6)  is out, so I downloaded it and ran a full face scan/recognition process. My settings are as follows:
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>> Search In: All Albums
>> Workflow: Scan all images
>> Face Detection Accuracy: Default
>> Face Size: Medium
>> Face Recognition Settings: Default
>> Work on all processor cores: Checked
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>> I ran the scan for my nearly 100K images. it took it abotu 8–10 hours.
>> After the process competed, I clicked on a name and confirmed some images. The scan/recognize process started all over again.
>> I changed the settings to Search in No Albums and only scan new images but did not run a new scan. I quit and restarted.
>> The same thing happened when I started DigiKam again and confirmed a few more faces.
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>> Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Should I report it as a bug?
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>> Thanks,
>> Carol
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