Is it possible to create C++ program that will find a efficient way to copy files to USB drive?

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I usually have to copy a group of files to one or more USB drive. It quite difficult to send the files to the USB drives in the most effective and efficient way so that from a group of files, the ones that fit with the least amount of free space remaining get copied to the USB drive.

**I'm not a programming student, I just like programming and have some experience with BASIC language.

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I have done some research on this but couldn't find anything useful.
I will continue looking for information, and if i find something then i will insert it here.

Posted 19-Feb-17 14:27pm

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Updated 19-Feb-17 20:42pm

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Garth J Lancaster 19-Feb-17 20:45pm

I'm not sure what you searched for, but first fit/next fit/best fit algorithms spring to mind, closely followed by constraints based algorithms for 'box packing'

CPallini 20-Feb-17 3:23am

Why do you need C++ for such a task? You could stick with VB, in my opinion.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2017-02-19T20:42:00

My short research for "get free disk space windows c++" with Google gave me the GetDiskFreeSpace function with returns the amount of free space.

That should be the starting point of calculating the optimal file set for your copy job.

And guess: to copy a file you can use CopyFile.

Consider learning the powerful C++ language and the Windows API. ;-)