Problem exporting images to a memory card

Greetings,
I am attempting to export approximately 1500 photos from an album in IPhoto 08 and put them onto a SD memory card to be used in a digital frame. I have exported the photos from IPhoto and placed them into a folder on my desktop. The folder size is 966 MB according to the “Get Info” command. When I attempt to copy the images from the folder on the desktop to the memory card, a few of the images will transfer over, then I get the following command: “The item _____ cannot be copied because there is not enough free space.” I tried to copy all of the images at once, and when that didn’t work, I tried to copy in smaller batches. I have tried this numerous times and the following (using a 2GB card) is my most recent result: by copying 10-20 images at a time, I was able to copy a total of 162 pictures before I could no longer transfer any images. I have tried and I cannot add another single image to the card, yet when I use the “Get Info” command it tells me that 146.3 MB have been used on the card and 1.73 GB (of a total of 1.87 GB) are available. I have tried this with 1 GB, 2GB as well as 4GB cards.
Has anyone experienced this before? Could it possibly have anything to do with the format of the card? Is it an issue of using a SDHC card? If so, which card should I use? Please help. I’m hoping to give the digital frames (with images) to family for Xmas.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Andy

Andy
It has everything to do with the Format of the card.
These cards are formatted FAT16 or FAT 32, and these older Windows formats have a limit to the number of objects they can have on the root directory of the volume. So, don’t copy the images from the folder on your desktop, just drag the folder to the card...
Regards
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