Patent ID: 8667000
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a generation unit configured to newly generate a folder in a storage medium by control based on a predetermined program; an association unit configured to, in order for the predetermined program to use a folder generated in the storage medium by control based on a program other than the predetermined program, associate the folder generated in the storage medium by the control based on the program other than the predetermined program with the predetermined program; a record unit configured to record management information in a memory, the management information being for identifying whether folders used by the predetermined program have been generated by the generation unit or associated by the association unit; a selection unit configured to select a desired folder from among the folders used by the predetermined program; an identification unit configured to identify whether the folder selected by the selection unit has been generated by the generation unit or associated by the association unit with reference to the information recorded in the memory; and a deletion control unit configured to perform control of when the identification unit has identified the folder selected by the selection unit as having been generated by the generation unit, deleting the selected folder from the storage medium, and when the identification unit has identified the selected folder as having been associated by the association unit, cancelling the association without deleting the selected folder from the storage medium.