Patent ID: 8744241

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a management unit configured to store a plurality of moving image files recorded on a recording medium in a folder to manage the plurality of moving image files; a receiving unit configured to receive a file-divide instruction from a user; and a control unit configured to control the management unit to divide a moving image file stored in a first folder on the recording medium in accordance with the file-divide instruction, wherein the control unit controls the management unit to move at least one of the plurality of moving image files, which is different from a moving image file to be divided and is stored in the first folder, to another folder on the recording medium in accordance with the file-divide instruction and store a first divided moving image file and a second divided moving image file obtained by dividing the moving image file to be divided in the first folder from which the at least one of the plurality of moving image files has already been moved, wherein the management unit stores a predetermined maximum number of moving image files that one folder on the recording medium can store and the control unit controls the management unit to store the first divided moving image file and the second divided moving image file in the first folder without moving the at least one of the plurality of moving image files if the number of moving image files stored in the first folder does not reach the predetermined maximum number of moving image files.