add documentation for import feature

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<toc-element topic="Introduction.topic"/>
<toc-element topic="configuration-overview.md"/>
<toc-element topic="User-Guide.md"/>
<toc-element topic="User-Guide.md">
<toc-element topic="Importing-existing-media.md"/>
</toc-element>
<toc-element topic="Configuration.md">
<toc-element topic="configuration-backend.md"/>
<toc-element topic="authentication-setup.md"/>

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# Importing existing media
In order for MediaManager to be able to import existing media (e.g. downloaded by Sonarr or Radarr)
3 conditions have to be met:
1. The folder's name must not contain `[tmdbid-xxxxx]` or `[tvdbid-xxxxx]`.
2. The folder's name must not start with a dot.
3. The media must be in the root tv/movie library
Here is an example, using these rules:
```
/
└── data/
├── tv/
│ ├── Rick and Morty # WILL be imorted
│ ├── Stranger Things (2016) # WILL be imported
│ │
│ ├── Breaking Bad (2008) [tmdbid-1396] # WILL NOT be imported
│ ├── .The Office (2013) # WILL NOT
│ │
│ └── my-custom-library/
│ └── The Simpsons # WILL NOT be imported
└── movie/
└── Oppenheimer (2023) # WILL be imported
```
Is your folder structure in the correct format, you can start importing. For this,
you just need to login as an administrator and go to the TV/movie dashboard.
<note>
When importing, no files will be deleted, moved or copied! Instead, they will be hard linked.
</note>
After importing, MediaManager will automatically prefix the old root TV show/movie folders with a dot,
in order to mark them as 'imported'.
So after importing, the directory would look like this (using the above directory structure):
```
/
└── data/
├── tv/
│ ├── .Rick and Morty # RENAMED
│ ├── Rick and Morty (2013) [tmdbid-60625] # IMPORTED
│ │
│ ├── .Stranger Things (2016) # RENAMED
│ ├── Stranger Things (2016) [tmdbid-66732] # IMPORTED
│ │
│ ├── .The Office (2013) # IGNORED
│ ├── Breaking Bad (2008) [tmdbid-1396] # IGNORED
│ │
│ └── my-custom-library/
│ └── The Simpsons # IGNORED
└── movie/
├── .Oppenheimer (2023) # RENAMED
└── Oppenheimer (2023) [tmdbid-872585] # IMPORTED
```