Patent ID: 7610321

Claim:
A destination apparatus configured to receive a file that is transferred thereto, comprising: generating means for generating a first list containing a unique medium identifier, assigned to a removable storage medium loaded in a source apparatus that transfers a file, and file information regarding a file transferred from the storage medium; storing means for storing the first list; list obtaining means for obtaining a second list held in the source apparatus, the second list containing the medium identifier and file information regarding at least one file stored in the storage medium; determining means for determining each file stored in the storage medium as an untransferred file when the second list does not contain the same medium identifier as that contained in the first list, alternatively, comparing the file information in the first list with that in the second list to determine an untransferred file when the second list contains the same medium identifier as that contained in the first list; transferred-file storing means for instructing the source apparatus to transfer the untransferred file and storing the file, transferred from the source apparatus in response to the instruction, in the storing means; and destination-list rewriting means for rewriting the first list stored in the storing means on the basis of the file stored in the storing means.