Any solutions to Apple's poor file copy function

For many years Apple's OS - all versions on all computers does not have the intelligence to copy files from drive to drive. Does anyone know of a different software program that can help the Apple OS do this simple task?
A little more info - I have never been able to get any Apple product - all the way back to System 7 to be able to copy files unattended. The latest annoying problem comes from a need to move files from my Thunderbolt 1 TB SSD drive to an attached Toshiba 2TB drive. I have a folder with about 1500 photos that I need to move from the SSD to the Toshiba drive to clear up space on my SSD drive. I am using my MB Pro with OS 10.9.5 with 16 GB ram and a 1 TB internal SSD drive and it does not matter if I select 5 files or 500 files, it never gets more than 20 files into the copy and then very stupidly thinks some random file is in use. No Apple OS has the intelligence to think that if this one file can't be copied at this time, that it should continue the copy operation. The copy process shuts down then I have to look file by file to see which files it did successfully copy. Then delete the files on the drive and select another 50 files and get another 4 or 5 copied and then do it again and again and again and again, etc...
I have the same problem using my Mac Pro workstation with 32 GB ram, the same problem on all 4 of my MbPro notebooks. The problem is 100% within Apple's OS. Obviously none of the files are ever in use. Also, rebooting the computer does not change the situation. Problem has existed since my PowerMac 8100/80. It would be nice to see Apple address this problem or someone else write a basic file copy program that works.
Thanks
George

Mark
Appreciate your observations but there are a couple of issues at point
#1 - The OS incorrectly thinks a file is in use when it is not. It does not matter if I select and copy or drag and drop. Minutes later the same file will usually copy. Does not matter if it is an image from the iphone or a word doc or excel file or a video file.
#2 - The OS is incapable of continuing a copy function when it has incorrectly told itself that a file is in use. A superior file copy function would flag the error and continue copying. No idea why Apple has not fixed this about a decade ago. It has to be deeply embedded in their system software.
The issue is the same if it is with an original Mac Pro copying between internal hard drives or involving external hard drives or a NAS drive. It has plagued me for a very long time. As I find hard drives that I want to move everything off of so I can reformat or replace I have to go through this painful ordeal which involves initiating the copy function hundreds of times. I have almost finished copying 657 photos that were copied from my iPhone to the SSD drive and I wanted to get them off the SSD drive. It took several hours yesterday and I have been at it for about 4 hours tonight. It sure seems like it should be as easy as dragging the folder from one drive to the other and it would be if there was some way to disable that stupid "file in use" error in the Apple OS.
Thanks
George

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