I just did a ton of troubleshooting and came up with a fix for my situation - check it out and see if it applies to you.Since the upgrade to Monterey OS - my Photos has not scanned/processed any face recognition. Regardless of all the forum advice, I continue to get the message "0 Photos Scanned - Photos will continue scanning your remaining 70,524 photos when you're not using the app and your Mac is connected to power."
I am running Monterey OS 12.1. I have turned off the power saving feature. I have both quit Photos and left it running overnight - and had Photos open-but minimized and left running overnight. Nothing happens. I have also gone to Activity Monitor - searched for photoanalysisd and force quit that - and repeated leaving things over night. No progress.
Any other ideas? This is on a iMac Pro.
It is an automatic process; you can't get it to stop/start manually. The key process is "photoanalysisd", and the only way to at least launch that process is to open Photos.I just looked at Photos and how do you scan for faces? I looked at every menu option and couldn't find anything. Is it supposed to be automatic? Ventura 13.2 on an Intel MacBook Pro (2019). I have faces in my "People" category but I can't see any way to run a manual scan.
It might be the same thing? If you're willing to roll up your sleeves on this one to get more information about why it's choosing not to run:I think since my external drive is directly connected it to my MacBook it triggers the same blockage as the external monitor. So I guess I need to buy a wireless drive. It sucks!
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