Patent ID: 7385635

Claim:
An electronic device, comprising: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject; a recording device that records an image file corresponding to images captured by the image-capturing device into a recording medium; a specifying information forming device that forms transfer image specifying information for specifying an image file to be transferred in the recording medium separately from the image file; a communication device that transfers the image file recorded in the recording medium to an external recording device; a transfer instruction operation unit that issues an instruction for the communication device to transfer the image file specified with the transfer image specifying information; and a processing device that processes the image file that is specified with the transfer image specifying information differently from an image file that is not specified with the transfer image specifying information, wherein the processing executed by the processing device is deletion of image files recorded in the recording medium; and the processing device deletes only image files that are not specified with transfer image specifying information when the deletion of image files is instructed.