Virtual storage drive causes lightroom to crash

Question

I use a service called Bitcasa, which is essentially just another cloud storage solution a la Dropbox, etc, except that it allows unlimited storage.  To do this, it mounts a virtual drive on your computer called the "Bitcasa Infinite Drive".
When I open the import dialog in Lightroom, since my Bitcasa Infinite Drive is the first drive in my drive list, Lightroom defaults to trying to load the photos available for import from there.  The problem there, of course, is that it is a virtual drive and it is quite large, which causes Lightroom to hang and eventually crash.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to import from the Bitcasa virtual drive, it's just that Lightroom defaults to the first drive in the list in the import dialog so it tries to load previews from it and crashes.  Trying to select the proper drive to import from (my sd card) is futile at that point because Lightroom has already stopped responding before I have a chance to actually click anything in the import dialog.
I am running Lightroom 5.2 on Windows 7 64-bit.

Answer 1

hi there
ended up here as I was just googling around the very same issue. I'm afraid I've not much to contribute apart from the fact that personally I moved to drag-and-drop the images to import in the LR library (thus avoiding to ever press the import button), it seemed less of an hassle to me than shutting down bitcasa every time
somebody suggested this already in this bitcasa forum thread
http://forums.bitcasa.com/index.php?/topic/931-cant-import-in-adobe-lightroom-while-bitcas a-is-running/