1. A method of managing information in a computer system having an original data-space that contains a plurality of sequentially stored original data-elements, a data data-space that contains a plurality of stored data data-elements, and an index data-space that contains a plurality of sequentially stored index data-elements, wherein at least one of the original data-elements is operated on by an administrative application program, the method comprising: recording in a data data-element in the data data-space information concerning manipulation by the administrative application program of a corresponding original data-element in the original data-space; and recording a location of the data data-element in an index data-element of the index data-space corresponding to the original data-element, wherein the index data-elements in the index data-space are arranged in the same sequence as the corresponding original data-elements in the original data-space.