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I don't suppose Adobe's face recognition embeds the data into the metadata of the photo itself?
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No, it doesn't but you can routinely select your files to write the face tags (and your other tags) to the meta data. The only thing though is that this is only a one way procedure. For example, once you write the tags to the metadata, you can not edit the metadata tags by editing the tags within Elements. You will need to go to the photo file's properties (or use another program) to make changes to the existing metadata keywords.
This is one of the problems that I wish Adobe would address. I can understand why they want to write the tag data to an Elements database program so it's quicker to perform certain tasks within the program, but why not automatically sync the metadata and the Elements tags so it's a 2 way communication?
Change the Elements tag, then the metadata tag is changed. Change the metadata outside of Elements, then Elements should warn you that the file is out of sync and ask for further instructions from you on what to do next.