Patent ID: 7403979

Claim:
A file recording system comprising: reading means for reading out from a removable recording medium one or more files and location information of an apparatus that is a file transfer destination for the one or more files, the location information being recorded in an attribute memory area of the removable recording medium storing said one or more files and said location information; first display means for displaying, on a display, the location information read by said reading means, together with a first file transfer menu; first deletion designating means for acquiring an indication, via the displayed first file transfer menu before transmission of the one or more files, from a user of whether or not to delete all of the one or more files to be transferred from the removable recording medium after the files have been transferred, second display means for displaying, on the display if the indication acquired by the first deletion designating means is not to delete all of the one or more files to be transferred, a file selection menu for selecting files to be transferred; selecting means for selecting one or more files stored in the removable recording medium to be transferred to the apparatus corresponding to the location information read by said reading means; file transfer means for transferring all of the one or more files read by said reading means to a specific region on said apparatus corresponding to the location information read by said reading means if the first deletion designating means acquires the indication that all of the one or more files are to be deleted, or transferring the one or more files selected by the selecting means to said apparatus corresponding to the location information read by said reading means if the first deletion designating means acquires the indication that all of the one or more files are not to be deleted; confirmation means for confirming reception by the apparatus corresponding to the location information of the one or more files transferred by the file transfer means; second deletion designating means for, after the transmission of the selected one or more files and confirmation by the confirmation means, acquiring an indication from the user of whether or not to delete the one or more transferred files from the removable recording medium; and deletion means for deleting all of the one or more transferred files from the removable recording medium if the first deletion designating means acquires the indication to delete all of the one or more files, and for deleting the one or more files selected by the selecting means if the first deletion designating means acquires the indication not to delete all of the files and the second deletion designating means acquires the indication to delete the one or more selected files.