GnuPG 2.42 on Windows XP: cannot connect to gpg-agent with a non-default homedir

Anton Shepelev anton.txt at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 15:31:00 CEST 2026


I wrote:

> May I ask why you need to use GnuPG with a non-default
> home directory?  In my case, I wanted to store it on a
> drive encrypted with VeraCrypt 1.25.7, because it is a
> work PC in an office.

I have been able to work around this issue with
Junction[*] 1.06:

   junction C:\Documents and Settings\Anton.GIT\Application Data\gnupg A:\.gnupg

where A:\ is my VeraCrypt encrypted volume.
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* The latest version (now 1.07), and is available at
  <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/junction> .
  if it does not for you, I can share version 1.06.
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