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Copy any photos you have into the folder you just created.

Install the <application><ulink url="apt:f-spot">F-Spot</ulink>application</application>

Press <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Graphics</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>F-Spot Photo Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start <application>F-Spot</application>.

The <application>Import</application> screen should be shown. If it is not, press <menuchoice><guimenuitem>File</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Import...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to show it.

To prevent two copies of your photos from being stored, un-check the <guilabel>Copy file to the Photos folder</guilabel>.

From <guilabel>Import source</guilabel> select the option <guilabel>Select Folder</guilabel>. Select the <filename>Photos</filename> folder in your Home folder by clicking it once.

Press <guibutton>Import</guibutton> to start the import process. Depending on how many photos you have, this may take a while.

Importing Music

Another useful application installed by default in Xubuntu is the <application>Listen Music Player</application>. This allows you to organize and play all of your music.

Open your Home folder and create a new folder called <emphasis>Music</emphasis>. You can do this by pressing <menuchoice><guimenuitem>File</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Create Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

Copy any music files you have into the folder you just created.

Press <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Multimedia</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Listen Music Player</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start <application>Listen</application>.

Press <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Music</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Import Folder...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to begin importing your music. The <application>Import Folder into Library</application> screen will appear.

Click the <filename>Music</filename> folder in your Home folder in order to select it, and then press <guibutton>Open</guibutton> to import all playable music in that folder into <application>Rhythmbox</application>.

The import process may take a while depending on how many music files you have. Once finished, you can organize and play your music using <application>Listen</application>.

<application>Listen</application> will alert you if it encounters a file it cannot play. In this case, it is likely that the file cannot be played because support for the audio format it uses is not currently installed. See <xref linkend="preparing-converting-audio"/> for more information on this.

If you saved your emails from Windows, you may now want to import them into the <application>Evolution</application> mail client. The following instructions assume that you are importing emails exported using <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application>, as described in <xref linkend="preparing-email-import"/>:

Start <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> by pressing <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Network</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Mozilla Thunderbird Mail/News</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

Press <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Tools</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Import...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start the <application>Import Assistant</application>.

Contacts/Address Book

If you saved your address book from Windows, you can now import your contacts into <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application>. The following instructions assume that you are importing the address book from <application>Microsoft Outlook Express 6</application> or <application>Microsoft Outlook 2002</application>:

Choose a location in which to save the contacts, such as <menuchoice><guimenuitem>On This Computer</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Personal</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.Press <guibutton>Next</guibutton>.

Press <guibutton>Import</guibutton> to import the contacts into <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application>. Once importing has completed, the imported contacts should be immediately available.

If you saved the list of favorite web pages from the browser you used on Windows, you can now import them into the web browser available with Xubuntu. The following instructions are intended for users of the default <application>Firefox Web Browser</application> who are importing their favorites from <application>Microsoft Internet Explorer 6</application>. Please see <xref linkend="preparing-bookmarks"/> for more information.

Press <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Network</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Firefox Web Browser</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start the <application>Firefox Web Browser</application>.

Use <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Add/Remove...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to install applications from Xubuntu&rsquo;s software library, or to remove existing applications from your computer. Use <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Synaptic Package Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice> for more advanced tasks.

Settings that affect everyone who uses Xubuntu on this computer are found in <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>System</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Settings that just affect you are accessed from <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Xfce 4 Settings Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

To close all your programs and leave the computer ready for someone else to log in, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Quit</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Log Out</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, then <guibutton>Log Out</guibutton>.

Equivalent items to those in the <quote>My Computer</quote> window are found in various places in Xubuntu.

Inside your home folder (<menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Home Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>), you can arrange documents and other files in whatever folders you wish.

Open <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Printing</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to set up printers. Xubuntu does not support faxing.

To put your computer into a power-saving mode until you resume using it, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>Quit</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Shut Down</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, then <guilabel>Suspend</guilabel> or <guilabel>Hibernate</guilabel>. (<guilabel>Hibernate</guilabel> requires no power at all, but is slower, and is not available on some types of computer.)

Programs that play music and movies, and rip music CDs, are available from <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Multimedia</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

To check for updates to Xubuntu, open <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Ubuntu Update Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

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