`load_people` returned every live person, and on the reference library
that was 14,268 rows of which 11,739 held no faces at all — 85 per cent
of the rail naming nobody and able to do nothing.
They are not a mystery. A regrouping pass creates a person per cluster;
the next pass moves those faces elsewhere and leaves the person it
emptied behind. `faces::prune_empty_unnamed` exists for exactly this and
runs only at the end of a pass, so nothing clears what accumulates
between them, and the Identity screen never prunes at all.
Each one cost a `for_person` query and a built row on every reload. This
withholds precisely the set the prune already treats as disposable —
empty, unnamed, not set aside — and no more.
Filtered rather than deleted: a screen is being drawn, not a catalog
repaired. Nothing is lost, a sync cannot resurrect what was never
removed, and the prune stays the one place that decides these can go.
An empty group with a *name* still shows. That one is not debris but the
symptom of a real failure — a named person whose faces were regrouped out
from under them — and hiding it would take away the only way to merge
them back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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