Adobe Lightroom 3 hangs on Import with JungleDisk

I've been playing around with the new Adobe Lightroom 3 for Windows, now that it's released. So far, it looks pretty good!

One thing I noticed right away was that its Import functionality (which is completely redesigned for LR3) appeared to hang indefinitely on my system. After quite a bit of research, I found this Adobe Forums thread that helped me solve the problem: JungleDisk drive mapping presents itself as a Removable Drive, which LR3 automatically attempts to scan.

Because the mounted JungleDisk drive connects to the Amazon S3 storage service, it is a slower WAN connection and Lightroom will probably sit there for minutes or hours trying to scan the entire drive. The solution is to configure JungleDisk to present its mounted drive as a Network Share instead:

• Go into Jungle Disk Desktop Monitor
• Click on Configure
• Select Network Drive::Local Drive Mapping
• Make sure "Show Advanced Options" is checked at the lower-left
• Change the "Drive Type for all Online Disks" option to "Network share"

Once you do that, the Lightroom Import dialog should be much smoother.