Create a directory if it doesn’t exist

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Use the WINAPI CreateDirectory() function to create a folder.

You can use this function without checking if the directory already exists as it will fail but GetLastError() will return ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS:

if (CreateDirectory(OutputFolder.c_str(), NULL) ||
    ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS == GetLastError())
{
    // CopyFile(...)
}
else
{
     // Failed to create directory.
}

The code for constructing the target file is incorrect:

string(OutputFolder+CopiedFile).c_str()

this would produce "D:\testEmploi Nam.docx": there is a missing path separator between the directory and the filename. Example fix:

string(OutputFolder+"\\"+CopiedFile).c_str()

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