Patent ID: 8671358

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus for searching for a file/folder in a file system that matches a search condition, generating and managing a search folder used to store data of files/folders obtained by that search, and displaying a list of files and/or folders, each of the files and/or folders in the list displayed in association with one or more respective fields of meta data, the apparatus having a processor and comprising: a determination unit configured to determine if a folder to be displayed in the list is a search folder, a folder that searches and collects files or folders that match search conditions associated with the search folder; and a display control unit configured to, in a case that the folder to be displayed in the list is a search folder, display search condition values, instead of meta data of the search folder, in fields of meta data items corresponding to the search conditions in the list, for which the search conditions of the search folder are set, wherein the search conditions of the search folder are different from the metadata of the search folder.