Shutterfly Taking Forever to Load Images ???

Is anyone here a regular user of Shutterfly ?

On my very first experience with Shutterfly, I had 50 4x6 images printed.

I had my 50 images ready to go in a folder; I got everything ready on Shutterfly's end and sent the images; in about thirty seconds my 50 images were stored in an album and my prints were under production.

Then, things took a frustrating turn for the worse.

A couple days later, I needed to load about 50 more images; Shutterfly would fool around for fifteen or more minutes and then say that something prevented loading the images.

I tried numerous times and finally resorted to transferring the images one by one, during which it would still stop progress about every third image; it took me into the wee hours to finally get the images transferred.

Now today, the wife is trying to transfer some images to Shutterfly and, everytime that it appears it is going to work, she gets a message saying it can't load the files.


Is this behavior typical for Shutterfly ?


Do you guys think the problem is on my end or Shutterflie's ?

Can I fix this so things will go faster ?

Thanks for reading.