Patent ID: 7929166

Claim:
A data managing device comprising: a data acquiring portion to acquire from an image processing apparatus at least part of data stored therein as editing data; an editing portion to edit said acquired editing data; a detecting portion to detect an edited part which is different between a pre-editing version of said editing data and an edited version of said editing data; a selecting portion to select either a rewrite-all mode or an individual rewrite mode based on the number of records included in said detected edited part; in said rewrite-all mode, a batch rewriting portion to send a rewrite-all command to said image processing apparatus, so as to instruct said image processing apparatus to rewrite said pre-editing version of the editing data with said edited version of the editing data; and in said individual rewriting mode, an individual rewriting portion to send at least an individual rewrite command to said image processing apparatus, so as to instruct said image processing apparatus to rewrite all records included in said edited part one by one.