Comment 8 for bug 193010

I am also having the same problem. As mihai007 on 2007-01-10 here,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/78710

, the problem is probably with image collection preview scanning the directory preemptively even when the pane isn't activated. This isn't a wishlist, but definitely a bug since it can be a real show stopper with folders containing images in the thousands.