Abstract: A file management method and an apparatus, related to the field of communications technologies, can trigger, on an interface of an application, searching and management of a file displayed on the interface, to improve file management efficiency in a terminal. The method includes: displaying an interface of the first application; storing a target file received through the first application; extracting related information of the target file, where the related information of the target file includes file feature information, and the file feature information includes a name of the target file; searching for a storage path of the target file in storage space of the terminal based on the related information of the target file; and displaying a control used for performing file management on the target file if the storage path of the target file is successfully found.

Abstract: A file management method and an apparatus, related to the field of communications technologies, can trigger, on an interface of an application, searching and management of a file displayed on the interface, to improve file management efficiency in a terminal. The method includes: displaying an interface of the first application; storing a target file received through the first application; extracting related information of the target file, where the related information of the target file includes file feature information, and the file feature information includes a name of the target file; searching for a storage path of the target file in storage space of the terminal based on the related information of the target file; and displaying a control used for performing file management on the target file if the storage path of the target file is successfully found.