Unsupported alias error message when copying

I wish to copy a full duplicate of my data files to an external HD. I did this already about 10 days ago. It copied fine. This time I keep getting the msg re ‘alias “x” cannot be copied to the destination perhaps because the destination does not support this type of alias.’ When you say ok it stops the copy so you have to locate the alias and delete it (or bypass it) and restart the copy from there. Because I’m working with thousands of photos, I have apparently many such aliases. It’s very annoying and extremely time consuming.
In the intervening 10 days I upgraded from Panther to Tiger and I now remember that on a MacPro with Tiger I got the same msg when trying to copy files from the HD to an ext HD. What has changed?
These aliases have sizes of 1.2mb - 2.4mb so I’m not even sure they ARE aliases (or are they displaying the size of the linked file?). Some when viewed in Photoshop you can open and save as a jpeg and they seem to turn into a jpeg in situ. Other times they still appear to be aliases (the icon for the aliases in browser Photoshop 7.0 is smaller than the jpeg icon). When I thought they were all aliases I trashed a load of them (without emptying) and was going to do various tests on them later but now I can’t copy them out of trash due to this unsupported type of alias msg. If they are real photos in the guise of aliases I’m not happy to lose them! Fortunately the duplicate data files from the first copy were still in the trash and they DID come out back onto the external HD, which I can’t quite understand.
I’ve located a few mentions of this msg on various forums but more in a .dmg context and never with an answer.
Thanks

Results below: IMG_1560.JPG is an alias with a size of 2.4mb. It does open, in Preview, if I click on its icon. But a search locates only one file with 1560 in it, rather than one alias plus one original. I can't see anything here to explain it, but then I don't know what I'm looking for! Thanks.
Alison
dtp2:/volumes/icecube 1/ALL files from 16 feb 07/ALL PHOTOS sorted 2006/shoebox/2005/08 manples$ cd "25"dtp2:/volumes/icecube 1/ALL files from 16 feb 07/ALL PHOTOS sorted 2006/shoebox/2005/08/25 manples$ ls -al
total 80912
drwx------ 24 manples manples 816 Mar 12 09:57 .
drwx------ 29 manples manples 986 Mar 3 10:49 ..
-rw------- 1 manples manples 6148 Mar 12 09:57 .DS_Store
-rw------- 1 manples manples 829 May 14 2006 .ShoeboxData
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2460 May 14 2006 .ShoeboxIndex
-rw------- 1 manples manples 32645 May 8 2006 .ShoeboxTags
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2541856 May 7 2006 IMG_1557.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2844264 May 7 2006 IMG_1558.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2658925 May 5 2006 IMG_1560.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 3042658 May 7 2006 IMG_1561.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2692175 May 7 2006 IMG_1562.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2552810 May 7 2006 IMG_1563.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2086762 May 7 2006 IMG_1564.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2361276 May 7 2006 IMG_1565.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2733893 May 7 2006 IMG_1566.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2146548 May 7 2006 IMG_1568.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2565009 May 7 2006 IMG_1573.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 1532541 May 7 2006 IMG_1575.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 1641619 May 7 2006 IMG_1577.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 532031 May 7 2006 IMG_1581.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 1959108 May 7 2006 IMG_1584.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2028030 May 7 2006 IMG_1586.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2092720 May 7 2006 IMG_1590.JPG
-rw------- 1 manples manples 2317873 May 7 2006 IMG15901.JPG
dtp2:/volumes/icecube 1/ALL files from 16 feb 07/ALL PHOTOS sorted 2006/shoebox/2005/08/25 manples$

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