getting "out of memory" error when transferring My Pictures folder from old external hardrive to new one

Question

I am trying to copy my "My Pictures" folder (it's quite big) from my older external harddrive to a new, bigger one.I'm getting a JPG decode error- with the message "can't allocate memory for result image(s)! Out of memory". The old harddrive is almost full, but the new one is nearly empty. I formatted it as the instructions said before using it. I am able to see some of the thumbnails in a folder (in both harddrives) but others are blank and when I try to open the photo I get the above error. Is it because I need to free more space on the old harddrive? The copy process seems to work ok but then some of the pictures can't be seen. I don't want to lose the pictures. Any help resolving the problem would be appreciated! Thank you

Answer 1

Your system is already consuming too muc RAM. Close some of the programs running in the back ground, and copy and paste the folder bit by bit and not the entire folder.

Answer 2

Probably you are trying to move your folder in "Copy-Paste" way wich requires a suficient amount of free space on the drive where your OS is instaled (you have no enough space to allocate your 'pagefile' - virtual memory).
Try to use for copying purpose File-Managers: (such as NortonCommander, FAR or TotalCommander,...) they are faster and no memory troubles shall appear.