help/C/remove-account.page

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   3       type="topic" style="task"
   4       id="remove-account">
   5
   6   <info>
   7     <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
   8     <desc>Completely remove an account from <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
   9     <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
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  17     <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.5" date="2011-12-19" status="review"/>
  18     <credit type="author">
  19       <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
  20       <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
  21     </credit>
  22     <license>
  23       <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
  24     </license>
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  32   </info>
  33
  34   <title>Remove an account</title>
  35
  36   <p>You can completely remove an account from <app>Empathy</app> if you no
  37   longer wish to use the account.  If you wish to use the account in
  38   <app>Empathy</app> again in the future, you will have to add your account
  39   details again.</p>
  40
  41   <steps>
  42     <item>
  43       <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui>
  44       <gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>, or press <key>F4</key>.</p>
  45     </item>
  46     <item>
  47       <p>Select the account you wish to remove from the accounts list on the
  48       left side of the window.</p>
  49     </item>
  50     <item>
  51       <p>Click <gui style="button">-</gui>.</p>
  52     </item>
  53     <item>
  54       <p>A dialog will be shown asking for confirmation. Click the <gui>Remove</gui>
  55       button to permanently remove the account.</p>
  56     </item>
  57   </steps>
  58
  59   <note>
  60     <p>Even after removing an account, <app>Empathy</app> does not delete
  61     your conversation history for that account.</p>
  62   </note>
  63 </page>