Windows Live Photo Gallery – Batch People Tag searching only date format folders and not all unique named folders for tagging suggestions

17. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

Hi Community!

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 and WLPG 2011 Build 15.4.3555.308. 

I am trying to get pictures tagged so that I can do a better job managing them. 

  • First I select "All Photos and Video" that are in included folders on the left hand nav. 
  • Then I select a face off the "Quick Find" bar at the top. 
  • It then takes me to a page where I can see all the photos that are tagged as this person.  It also shows me any suggestions to tag this person and there is an option to select "View All Suggestions"- so I click on that. 
  • It takes me to Batch People Tagging and I am able to select and confirm the correct tagging options.  Once I have tagged/removed all the pics - It says "All suggestions are confirmed - Searching for more matches..."  I am assuming that it is crawling through more or new folders/pictures that have been added.
  • Eventually it will say "All suggestions have been confirmed" and will stop searching. 

 

My issue is that it appears to only be searching folders that are in the date format such as "2013-09-17 001".  It find folders with pics that I know are already tagged with the same face but these pics are un-tagged and do not show up in the suggestions.  I have discovered that if a folder has a non-date name - it does not get indexed and search by the Batch People Tag process.

Can someone confirm if this is the case and advise if there is a way to configure the indexing?  Any suggestions?  I have a lot of pics I need to tag.

Thanks!