Failure to copy MOV files to an external hard drive

I only have 185 GB worth of hard drive space on my Mac and I do video editing, so I always move the files onto an external hard drive to save the space on my computers hard drive. Lately, I've been having issues when some of the MOV files give me the following error:
Sorry, the following operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred.
(Error Code 0)
Some of the files will copy over perfectly fine, but others give this error. All of these files have been created from Final Cu Pro 7.0. Please let me know what I can do to move them off of my computer.
Thanks

How big are they and how is the external drive formatted?

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