Accidentally deleted ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 14:30 +0000, renws via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've accidentally deleted ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg and now I'm not able to see any output from `gpg --list-keys' and `gpg --list-secret-keys'.
> 
> Is it possible to still use my private key to decrypt previously encrypted .gpg files? Are private keys stored in ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d ? If so how can I make use of it?
> 

Reimport your public key and things should start working again.  You may
look if ~/.gnupg doesn't contain a backup copy, or fetch it from
keyservers, someone who used it, etc...


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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