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<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">I have an existing gpg4win 3.1.14 install which I want to upgrade to gpg4win 3.1.15. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">I tried to install gpg4win 3.1.15 over the existing gpgwin 3.1.14. The installation completed successfully and</span><br>
<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">[GnuPG] and [Gpg4Win] folders reflected the expected versions as shown below :</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">gnupg 2.2.27</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">gpg4win 3.1.15</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">Also I could run the gpg --list-keys to see the keys. And I could use gpg to encrypt/decrypt using the existing keys.</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">However when I tried to start Kleopatra from my desktop it didn't come up ! It gave me an error message window titled
"Running as Administrator" with the following message :</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">Kleopatra cannot be run as adminstrator without breaking file permissions in the GnuPG data folder.</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">To manage keys for others please manage them as a normal user and copy the 'AppData\Roaming\gnupg' directory with
proper permissions.</span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<span style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;display:inline !important">>>>></span><br style="color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);font-family:Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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Found this link <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuPG/comments/lelzjc/kleopatra_error_how_to_fix_it/" id="LPlnk">https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuPG/comments/lelzjc/kleopatra_error_how_to_fix_it/</a> as per which there doesn't seem to be any resolution here for
gpg4win 3.1.15 ! <br>
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We switched to gpg4win 3.1.15 in order to avail the security improvements, so going back to gpg4win 3.1.14 would be going backwards.</div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; display: inline !important;">Thanks</span><br>
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