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moved Enigmail, cannot decrypt

mahjongguy
2013-08-19
2013-08-20
  • mahjongguy

    mahjongguy - 2013-08-19

    I have moved TB/Enigmail from one PC to another (Win 7 to Win 7 64).

    I transferred my keys and they show up in Key Management but my public
    key is no longer in bold text. The Properties shows it as a Public Key,
    not as a Key Pair.

    What step did I miss?

     
  • Patrick Brunschwig

    You seem to have missed to transfer your secret keys as well. That would be secring.gpg on your old installation.

     
  • mahjongguy

    mahjongguy - 2013-08-19

    Ok, good news and bad.

    Yes, the key Export and Import features seem not to have worked well. "Secring.gpg" was present but empty. So I manually copied all 10 files in the User/.../gpgnu folder to the new PC.

    Now Key Manager shows my key in bold text and it has the 'key pair' property. That's progress.

    But I still can't decrypt. Both installations seem identical, and the former worked fine for years, so I hope I can get further guidance. Thx.

     
  • mahjongguy

    mahjongguy - 2013-08-20

    I solved my problem. The 'secring.gpg' suggestion did indeed fix it, but I had meanwhile messed up another option.

    Cheers.

     

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