Patent ID: 7885984

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for replicating and editing data, the information processing apparatus comprising: a replication destination information display controlling unit displaying files and directories of a recording medium as a replication destination of the data in the figure on a display unit so that a user can intuitively know respective data amount of each of the files and directories of the recording medium and an available capacity of the recording medium as replication destination information; a replication unit executing planned replication and edition on the basis of the replication destination information displayed by the replication destination information display controlling unit; and an input receiving unit receiving a replication and edition command input inputted by the user's dragging and dropping operation on an icon or a figure of a file or a directory to be replicated to the replication destination information displayed by the replication destination information display controlling unit, wherein the replication destination information display controlling unit displays directory structure information related to the file or the directory to be replicated during the user's dragging and dropping operation.