Still Stalled in Picturevillle

I am still transferring 128.000 pictures. Discovered I have 2500 on my desktop alone. It is a very long and slow process. If anyone knows a faster process, let me know. I am transferring them to an external drive. All I do is transfer 12 at a time and look at the rainbow of death, do I want to replace, stop or whatever. It hurts. My brain hurts. Any band aids?