Methods of temporary erase, search, restoration and permanent erase of a
stream object and a recording medium for storing additional information
for restoration of divided stream objects. To solve the problem that full
restoration cannot be guaranteed in managing and editing (temporary
deleting) a content which includes a film, music, or other data, when a
plurality of units are used, search information in dividing a stream
object by temporary deletion is generated. Using the information
structure and restoration method, stream objects divided by temporary
deletion can be fully restored to their original state, and the
temporarily-deleted part can be permanently deleted.