Patent ID: 8296272

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor, including: means for managing files stored on a storage medium which are adapted to share predetermined management-use information items of a file system, at least one of the management-use information items being associated with a specific one of the files stored on the storage medium, the management-use information items being stored in a management file stored on the same storage medium that stores the specific one of the files, means for managing the specific one of the files stored on the storage medium using basic-file management information about that file which is separate from the predetermined management-use information items of the file system and which is stored in a non-volatile memory, other than the storage medium that stores the specific one of the files and the management file, within the information processing apparatus, means for comparing, when performing an index display in which the specific file stored in the storage medium is displayed in an index style, contents of common item information of the at least one management-use information item of the file system that is associated with the specific file and stored in the management file stored on the same storage medium that stores the specific file and contents of common item information of the basic-file management information about the specific file stored in the non-volatile memory within the information processing apparatus, and means for executing the index display such that a comparison result by the means for comparing is reflected.