[mail] Re: Forcing a face recognition rescan

[Maik Qualmann]

Hi Gilles,

Face detection/recognition  is currently no longer available in the 
maintenance tool, only other face management tasks.

Face detection/recognition is only included in the People view.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2025, 07:38:50 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Gilles Caulier:
> Hi,
> 
> Go to Tools/Maintenance and configure the face scan stage as you want. See
> the doc here :
> 
> https://docs.digikam.org/en/maintenance_tools/maintenance_faces.html
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le lun. 28 juil. 2025 à 17:01, Steve YATES <syates at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
> > "Do you talk about the Setup/Mics/Behavior dialog panel ?""
> > 
> > If I start from here
> > 
> > How do I get to select a rescan of the existing database to take into
> > account faces that I have added names to?
> > 
> > I've upgraded to 8.8.0
> > 
> > Sorry for being stupid but there is something that must be obvious to
> > others that I am missing
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 28/07/2025 16:34, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Do you talk about the Setup/Mics/Behavior dialog panel ?
> > https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#behavior
> > -settings
> > 
> > Take care. In 8.7.0 few important bugs have been found just after the
> > release, and there are now fixed in next 8.8.0. We have a daily build
> > bundles available for testing. 8.8.0 will be a bug fix releases
> > without no huge new features. At least for face managements, no new
> > stuff are implemented, only bug fix. Files are there:
> > https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> > 
> > The list files closed are available in current NEWS file from the git
> > repository:
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/NEWS?ref_type=heads
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > Le lun. 28 juil. 2025 à 15:43, Steve YATES <syates at wanadoo.fr>
> > <syates at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
> > 
> > Courtesy of Google I have found that to force a rescan of faces after
> > identifying more faces, I need to change an option in "scan settings". My
> > problem is I can't find "scan settings", can anyone point me in the right
> > direction.  Am using digiKam 8.7.0 under Windows 10
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > Steve