Patent ID: 8458235

Claim:
A file management system, comprising: a client terminal; and a file management apparatus that is connected to the client terminal via a network, wherein the client terminal includes a file-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, when a displayed graphical object that represents a file is selected, the file represented by the displayed graphical object and file management information that is associated with the file; and a transmitting unit that transmits the file and the file management information acquired by the file-information acquiring unit to the file management apparatus; and the file management apparatus includes a storage unit that stores therein the file and the file management information transmitted from the client terminal; the file-information acquiring unit is configured to add a photographed date contained in Exif data of the file to the file management information, when the file is an image file obtained by using a photographing apparatus; and the file-information acquiring unit is configured to add an update date of the file in the client terminal to the file management information, when the file is a file other than the image file with Exif data.