Problems with People Recognition in PSE 9 that were not in PSE 8.

Question

Hello, I recently downloaded PSE 9 Trial Version and imported a PSE 8 Backup into PSE 9.  It took quiet some time but it eventually converted the library to suit PSE 9.  I have noticed a couple of small things that I find very irritating and that seem to be a step backwards.  Firstly, when I am in people recognition mode, not all of the names auto complete when I type in the first 3 or 4 letters of the name like they used to in PSE 8, even though the people are in my people list.  This might not seem like a huge problem, but I have 100's of people in my catalog and if I do not spell the name exactly as I typed it before, I will create a second instance of the same person.  Secondly, when a bunch of faces come up in the "Name these people" Screen, I used to be able to hold down Shift or Ctrl key and select multiple people to name at once, PSE 9 wont let me do this, I have to name them one by one, even if they are the same person.  I'm sure this is just a small issue that Adobe will get around to, but it is a huge turn off from PSE 9.

Answer 1

So it sounds like PsE is installed correctly if new people tags work correctly.
I have seen another issue that might be related.  You can manually create a people tag by adding it to the people category.  As long as this tag exist in the 'root' people category, people recognition seems to work correctly.  You can also have people recognition create a tag during the people recognition process.  These are two different tag types if you look inside the database.  And they behave differently.  For example, you can merge tags which have been manually created whereas this functionaliy is not possible for tags created through people recongition.  (By the way, I would not recommend merging the manual tags because you will run into issues when PsE finds a face on a merged and deleted tag).
Once a face has been tagged to a manual people tag, the tag can be moved into a sub-category.
I don't know if tags created in PsE 8 are considered to be manual or not in PsE 9 but this may explain some things
Have you tried to move the people tags to the root people category and see if the functionaly works as expected?
I can't help you beyond this -- you have exhausted my people recognition skills.