IPhoto 9.4.3 breaks faces

Hi,
Since I upgraded to 9.4.3 I've had siginificant problems with iPhoto Faces (and others problems)
My library is around 14K photos
At upgrade it appears every photo has been rescanned - this has resulted in a photo with "unwanted" faces I had previously discounted have been identified again
Hundreds of photos have been rotated 90 clockwise (note this is not the rotate problem that 9.4.3 fixed)
Where the the photo has been rotated any face identified before has been "shifted". The face name is tagged but shifted to another part of the photo and the face shape has transformed from (typically) square to rectangle
Its a mess. I have slowly been working through a thousand photos correcting the rotation, removing unwanted faces and moving incorrect face location to the correct place.
Don't suppose this has happened to anyone else? (Google says no.)

it looks like your iPhoto library needs repairing or rebuilding.
Try the fixes as described her by Old Toad, if you have not already done so:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22114274#22114274
Regards
Léonie

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