Information processing method and apparatus for displaying a list of a plurality of image data files and a list of search results

摘要

A file system has a hierarchical tree structure in which directories and files are placed under another directory. According to the hierarchical tree structure, the data of one image is assigned to one file and a group of image data is assigned a common directory name. A program for managing the image data displays a thumbnail image based upon the image data of each file that belongs to a desired directory. With regard to another directory that belongs to the desired directory, a display is presented to clearly indicate that this is a directory and a thumbnail image based upon the image data of one file among the files belonging to this other directory is displayed as well.