Faces is not remembering names

Question

I am using Faces in Aperture 3. I converted one of my libraries across. It contains photos of several hundred colleagues often taken in groups. I wanted to name them.
1 How can I switch off Address Book interference?
I want the Faces pinboard sorted by Surname. When Aperture recognises the name I am inputting, it replaces what I type with just a First Name!
Workaround -- I am putting Surname_First.
2 How can I fix the autoprompt for names?
Whenever I type in McKenna, it changes the M to a j and gives me a garbage name. Similarly for a few other names. Keyboard is not the issue -- have swapped -- both are apple aluminium.
Workaround -- finish off name, then go back and edit in the correct few letters.
3 How do I stop Aperture from forgetting names?
I have laboriously entered dozens of names and tagged dozens of instances of each in the photos. Then, two different behaviours can occur...
i) The name inexplicably knocks of the leading Surname and underscore!
This happens to only a few names but, the behaviour repeats itself after renaming -- but not at once, it may take another half an hour before doing so. One example: Atton_Kevin kept reverting to Kevin.
ii) Particular Faces disappear. e.g. I set up Bond_Brian and Ahearn_John and Cirino_Caroline -- add to dozens of photos -- move on to other names -- and then, suddenly, they are no longer there and I have to re-enter them and re-confirm all the tags!
Can anyone help with any of these very annoying issues?
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ben

Answer 1

j ben b wrote:
I want the Faces pinboard sorted by Surname. When Aperture recognises the name I am inputting, it replaces what I type with just a First Name!
You can change the displayed name (which is used to sort them) in the "Faces" view corkboard by clicking the little 'i' in the bottom-right of the face. It sort of sounds like you're already doing this? But maybe in an odd way...? If you're not familiar with this 'info' window then it might help you to understand the face/address book connection and solve all your probs at once... I hope!
j ben b wrote:
2 How can I fix the autoprompt for names?
Whenever I type in McKenna, it changes the M to a j and gives me a garbage name. Similarly for a few other names. Keyboard is not the issue -- have swapped -- both are apple aluminium.
Workaround -- finish off name, then go back and edit in the correct few letters.
This seems to be a bug when the "Full Name" and the "Display Name" don't match (again, in the little info window you get from pressing the 'i' on a face in the cork-board). It matches against Full Names, but types out the text from the display name... remove full names (or change them to match the display names) and it seems to go away.
j ben b wrote:
i) The name inexplicably knocks of the leading Surname and underscore!
This happens to only a few names but, the behaviour repeats itself after renaming -- but not at once, it may take another half an hour before doing so. One example: Atton_Kevin kept reverting to Kevin.
Not 100% sure but this sounds like you might be selecting the 'address book' entry from your auto-complete list, instead of the 'faces' entry. I've not experienced the behaviours you're talking about in #3 though so I"m not really sure what's going on...