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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"/>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.3" date="2009-08-27" status="review">
13 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
16 <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.4" date="2010-04-19" status="review"/>
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>
23 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
28 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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34 <title>Remove an account</title>
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
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>
47 <p>Select the account you wish to remove from the accounts list on the
48 left side of the window.</p>
51 <p>Click <gui style="button">-</gui>.</p>
54 <p>A dialog will be shown asking for confirmation. Click the <gui>Remove</gui>
55 button to permanently remove the account.</p>
60 <p>Even after removing an account, <app>Empathy</app> does not delete
61 your conversation history for that account.</p>