Well, I’ve reinstalled Windoze again. Maybe I didn’t have to, but I can’t help feeling the need to every 6 months or so. One thing about reinstalling so often is that I am getting quite good and making sure I back things up and can reinstall everything quickly. I managed to get Thunderbird and Enigmail installed within 10 minutes with all of my previous settings retained, which is pretty impressive (at least to me).
However, while doing so, I ran across a GPG issue that really annoyed me. I needed to re-add my public and secret keys to GPG, but the very obvious
gpg – -secret-keyring `file’
command does not work to do this. The only command that works is
gpg – -import ‘file’
This is despite all documentation to the contary and is very annoying. It always takes me a while to figure this out, so I am posting it here for anyone else who has the same problem.
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