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dragonpoet777

13 May, 2014 02:02 PM

GPG Keychain Access 1.1.3
10.8.5

I'm trying to store all keys database on my removable disk and make the program use it from there, I read that I should move hidden folder .gnupg to my removable disc then make an alies to it on my harddrive, but this doesn't work because system says that you can not use a name like .gnupg because such a name is reserved for the system. But when I make "gnupg" alies to my removable disc folder gnupg the KeyChainAccess ignore it and create folder .gnupg again in case it was removed. Please tell me in details what steps I should make to make the program store and read all keys on my removable disc.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 28 May, 2014 02:59 PM

   

   Hi,

   are you familiar with the Terminal?
   If so, these are the commands that are required to move the .gnupg folder onto an external drive

   cp -R ~/.gnupg /Volumes/USBDRIVE/GPG-Keys
   mv ~/.gnupg ~/.gnupg.backup
   ln -s /Volumes/USBDRIVE/GPG-Keys ~/.gnupg
   

   If you're not familiar we can try to go through it step by step.

   Hope that helps.

   P.S.: I'll delete your other discussion with the same topic.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Steve on 05 Aug, 2014 12:10 PM

   

   We've a ticket for this problem:

   https://gpgtools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/65684/tickets/242

   So in the future this should be much easier. Not sure how soon well get this feature finished though.

   If this discussion get's closed, it will be re-opened as soon as the ticket is closed so you'll receive a notification. Feel free to open a new discussions should you run into further problems or need assistance.

   Closing, since no further user feedback was received. Should your problem persist, feel free to re-open this discussion any time.

   All the best, steve

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3. Steve closed this discussion on 05 Aug, 2014 12:10 PM.