I discovered Picasa in my Dell desktop computer in January 2014. To my delight I finally was able to scan photos and post them in the UHH Forum. But a few weeks ago, I noticed a new folder that I did not create, and it's been growing, using my own photos in a peculiar way. It's titled "People" and subtitled "Unnamed People", and shows small head-and-shoulder faces extracted from various shots in my files. It lists 183 groups and shows 743 faces, each with a little panel under it to "add a name." The faces are often extracted from group shots, individually, and enlarged so they are head-and-shoulders, so they are blurry and unrecognizable (except to me). If I click on a tiny X in an upper corner of a photo, I bring up a question, "Do you want to ignore this person?"
What's happening? How can I delete this intruder?
A thousand thanks, Linda!!! I was really worried that some weird virus had wormed its way into my system. I'm still concerned that this unwanted (by me, anyway) "feature" is gobbling up megabits by unnecessarily displaying 740 faces each time I activate Picasa.
RichardQ wrote:
I discovered Picasa in my Dell desktop computer in January 2014. To my delight I finally was able to scan photos and post them in the UHH Forum. But a few weeks ago, I noticed a new folder that I did not create, and it's been growing, using my own photos in a peculiar way. It's titled "People" and subtitled "Unnamed People", and shows small head-and-shoulder faces extracted from various shots in my files. It lists 183 groups and shows 743 faces, each with a little panel under it to "add a name." The faces are often extracted from group shots, individually, and enlarged so they are head-and-shoulders, so they are blurry and unrecognizable (except to me). If I click on a tiny X in an upper corner of a photo, I bring up a question, "Do you want to ignore this person?"
What's happening? How can I delete this intruder?
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On the menu bar goto Tools > Options and open the Name Tags tab. Uncheck both "Enable Face Detection" and "Enable suggestions", click OK
I think as you name the faces the file will get smaller because Picasa will know the faces and take them out of the file.
If you don't know the faces then try to delete them.
I hope that this is a help to you
Searcher wrote:
On the menu bar goto Tools > Options and open the Name Tags tab. Uncheck both "Enable Face Detection" and "Enable suggestions", click OK
Hooray! You're the Man, Searcher! All those "Unwanted" faces have vanished, and my heart is at ease.
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