HT204655 Has iPhoto import to Photos recaptured unnamed faces?

i have used iphoto for several years now and have a carefully categorized 37k image library. i have spent hundreds (HUNDREDS) of hours naming only select family and close friends with (named) faces and also methodically removed face tags for unnamed people (either complete strangers or people i don't want named) so there were absolutely NO unnamed faces in my iphoto library. i upgraded to the new photos app/program and my iphoto library was converted/imported. i'm discovering a very troubling trend: my previously unnamed faces have reappeared. I am sick to my stomach that all these unnamed faces have reappeared. thanks in advance for your help!

No. Photos uses hard links to the photos it imported from iPhoto and does not use up any additional space even though the Finder reports the size the same: Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support.
This describes it in more detail: The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto

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Hey Science Guy
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quit iPhoto and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and select show package contents - in the package contents find the folder names import (or importing) and drag it to the desktop - launch iPhoto and you will be fine - open the import(ing) folder on the desktop and verify that there is nothing you want to save in it (if there is import the photos to iPhoto) and then drag the import(ing) folder to the trash
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Hi Technology impaired, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Whew, I think we should do this first...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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My computer doesn't have the other photos imported on it anymore, are they lost for good?
It may be possible to recover some erased/missing ones, but you must quit using the Computer immediately, because the OS will think it can write to those freed blocks on the disk.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
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And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue II...
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Why has iPhoto tripled my photo quantity?

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For anything other than a wild guess you need to provide more information
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Sadly this is not the answer to my problem.
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