Patent ID: 8581988

Claim:
A data transfer apparatus comprising: a recording unit adapted to record image data on a first recording medium; a communication unit adapted to communicate with a recording apparatus which records image data on a second recording medium, the communication unit transferring image data recorded on the first recording medium to the recording apparatus and receiving medium information associated with a free space size of the second recording medium from the recording apparatus; a detection unit adapted to detect the free space size of the second recording medium based on the medium information received by the communication unit; a selection unit adapted to automatically select image data from a plurality of image data recorded on the first recording medium such that a total data size of the selected image data does not exceed the free space size of the second recording medium, based on the free space size of the second recording medium detected by the detection unit and a size of each of the plurality of image data recorded on the first recording medium; an output unit adapted to output representative images of the plurality of image data recorded on the first recording medium to a display device, wherein the output unit outputs discrimination information for discriminating the image data selected by the selection unit to the display device such that the discrimination information is displayed together with the representative images of the image data selected by the selection unit; a designation unit adapted to designate, from the representative images of the plurality of image data displayed on the display device together with the discrimination information, the representative image of the image data to be recorded on the second recording medium in accordance with an instruction for designating the representative image by a user; and a control unit adapted to control the communication unit to transfer the image data corresponding to the representative image designated by the designation unit from the first recording medium to the recording apparatus.