Patent ID: 8797326

Claim:
A file or folder management apparatus comprising: a storage section that stores one or more files for storing data sets and one or more folders for collectively holding the files, each of the files and folders having a name assigned thereto; a sort section that sorts the files or folders, stored in said storage section, in a predetermined order based on the names of the files or folders in accordance with a sort rule, the sort rule defining an order relationship among all characters usable as the names of the files and folders; a creation section that newly creates a file or folder in said storage section; and a name assigning section that automatically generates and assigns a name to the newly created file or folder, the name beginning with a character that is defined at a leading or trailing end in the predetermined order among all characters usable as the names of the files and folders, wherein each character of each of the names of each of the one or more files and one or more folders stored by the storage section is assignable as any of the characters defined by the sort rule.