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Hi all,

I believe this was discussed before, although I spent an hour searching through the forum to no avail, so am risking my membership to see if anyone could give me some pointers on how to accomlish it, or where to find the threads.

The project is to bulk copy backup cd/dvds to hd, for easier access. Problem is I need to switch cds and initiate copy constantly. I thought of a script that would:

1. detect if a cd is in drive
2. check cd filelist to see if it is the same as previous
3. copy all files on cd to hd
4. eject after completion

The problems I'm having with this design are:

1. I don't know how to detect or get notified if a new cd is in the drive, on the hardware level. I recall there was a thread about a DLL call for this exact function, however I could not locate it now.
2. The filelists could grow huge and the comparison may take a long time. Is there a better way? Would volume label checking be sufficient?
3. I may have non-english files on the cd. I'm wondering if AHK's FileCopy could accomodate these files? (I'm sure the foreign files are copiable by Windows's Copy&Paste.) If not, is there a utility that could perform this copy function and then exit?

Please let this newbie know of any recommendations/pointers or better designs you may have. Thanks in advance.

[engunneer]

3. Since you are likely using a loop to copy them (or just having ahk run the xcopy command?), there will be no problem.

2. I would not worry, if you just make a script smart enough to detect a cd, you can then have it auto-eject when done, and then when a file is available there must be a new cd, unless you forget to change it.

1. try
USB device connected/disconnected notification?
Eject any drive by Thalon
(links borrowed from a post by Skan)
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