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6 <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
7 <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
8 <desc>Import an existing account to <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-22" status="draft"/>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-22" status="review"/>
11 <credit type="author">
12 <name>Peter Haslam</name>
13 <email>peter.haslam@freenet.de</email>
15 <credit type="author">
16 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
17 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
21 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
23 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
26 <title>Import an existing account</title>
31 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, do one of the following:
41 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>.
48 Click on <gui>Import Accounts...</gui>.
53 From the <gui>Import Accounts</gui> dialog, select the <gui>Import</gui>
54 check-box next to the accounts you want to import.
59 Click <gui>OK</gui> to import the accounts to <app>Empathy</app>.
66 If you want to change the name that identifies the account in the <gui>Accounts</gui>
67 dialog, double-click on the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog
68 and type the new name.
74 At the moment <app>Empathy</app> can import accounts only from the instant
75 messaging program <app>Pidgin</app>. For more information about <app>Pidgin</app>,
76 see the <link href="http://www.pidgin.im/">Pidgin website</link>.