Patent ID: 7058659

Claim:
A file management apparatus of a portable device for recording/reproducing a file into/from a recording medium, comprising: a disk engine which reads attribute information of the file recorded in the recording medium; a controller which controls the portable device to record/reproduce the file corresponding to the attribute information; an input unit having a key which edits the attribute information, wherein the controller updates the attribute information recorded in the recording medium by editing the attribute information of the file in accordance with an input edit command by the input unit; a memory which receives and stores the attribute information from the recording medium; and a display unit which displays the attribute information stored in the memory to allow a user to edit the attribute information, wherein the attribute information stored into the memory includes at least one attribute information among a hiding, writing, file name changing, file route, and deleting with respect to the file, wherein the controller displays edited attribute information on the display unit in response to editing by the input unit of at least one of the attribute information among the hiding, writing, file name changing, file route, and deleting stored in the memory, and wherein the controller displays a message asking whether to convert the attribute information of the file to writeable attribute information in response to a transmittal of a writing command key signal where the attribute information of the file is set up as unable to write, and processes the file corresponding to a replied signal with respect to converting the attribute information from the input unit.