Image file management within a digital camera

Claim 1

A digital camera which accesses a recording medium having a plurality of folders to store a plurality of image files to each of which a file number is assigned, comprising: an acceptor for accepting a selecting operation to select any one of the plurality of folders formed in said recording medium; a first pointer to point a folder selected by the selecting operation as a record destination folder; a second pointer to point any one of the plurality of folders formed in said recording medium as a reproducing destination folder; a third pointer to point any one of the image files stored in said reproducing destination folder; a writer for writing a new image file accommodating photographed image data to the record destination folder when a recording instruction is issued; and a first changer to change a point destination of said second pointer and a point destination of said third pointer to a point destination of said first pointer and the new image file, respectively, in association with a writing process of said writer, wherein said writer includes a detector to detect a maximum file number from among the file numbers which are assigned to the image files stored in the record destination folder, and an assigner to assign a file number continuous from the maximum file number detected by said detector to the new image file, and said assigner can assign the same file number to different folders.