Extremely Frustrating Beach Ball when Copying

[atomiton]

Okay, so I copy things from a CD and half-way it freezes. It stops copying all of a sudden and just freezes. It's really frustrating and i don't understand what the problem is. I've fixed permissions I've upgraded the OS. It just doesn't like copying large amounts of files. I have to restart the finder to stop it. FRUSTRATING! I can't stop it always with force Quit.

Can someone please help me? I'm still fairly new to the mac.

I'm running on a G4, 300mhz. Is it a hardware thing?

FYI, this happens when I copy from an SD card too, or an ipod... please help! It's driving me crazy.!!!

 

[atomiton]

one more thing. I'm using Tiger, upgraded from jaguar.

 

[IJ Reilly]

By freezing, you mean it beach balls? What are you attempting to copy?

 

[atomiton]

By freezing, you mean it beach balls? What are you attempting to copy?

Yes, it beach balls. I mean I can work in other programs, but it beach balls the copy process and stops copying.

I'm trying to copy my music from my work computer which I had laboriously ripped from my CDs. I can't re-rip the CDs, as they were stolen.

There's a tonne of files.

I've also tried to copy via a SD Card Reader. Similar thing.

my work computer is a PC.