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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Still learning. Done what I believe is okay due diligence with reading various websites and skimming through GPG4Win mailing list archives (January 2015) and I believe I am somewhat functional, at least to the level I need. I currently use and have installed GPG4Win 3.02 on a Win 10 laptop and keep the master private key offline (thanks to ver 3, I no longer have to do the convoluted process of removing the master private key and the equally confusing (to me) restoral to certify pubic keys). Based on my still evolving understanding, it appears the best way to backup keys and config files is to copy the entire C:\Users\User_Profile\AppData\Roaming\gnupg to multiple safe locations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also use (mkportable.exe) a portable installation on a flash drive with important app executables and data files that can make me functional until I can get to off-site archives for system restoral, should my laptop get stolen or dies. I have found that by copying the location of ~\gnupg (laptop is already configured to use a signing subkey) to the ~\home subdirectory of the portable installation and creating shortcuts (yeah, sorry, I’m dependent on Windows … I know, I know …) to Kleopatra, I can duplicate my experience with GPG4Win as if it was fully installed on the laptop: flash drive contents and portable installation of GPG4Win is fail-safe. Now that my wife is getting her own laptop and I will be migrating her away from the obsolete PGP 10 Desktop she had been occasionally using, I would like to set her new laptop up similarly to mine, setting her key as default, etc., of course.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My two questions (sorry for the length):<o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Am I missing any steps / files or compromising GPG4Win functionality by copying the entire laptop-installed ~\gnupg files to the (created with mkportable.exe) flash-drive ~\home?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Any security issues with my copying my setup (config, keyrings/keyboxes) – tweaking, of course, so that only her private key is available on hers – by copying _<i>my</i>_ ~\gnupg files to my _<i>wife’s</i>_ laptop installation of GPG4Win 3.02?<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have read various practices of how other users backup their trustdb, keyboxes/keyrings, gpg.conf but not really anyone using the ~\gnupg folder, in toto, in the manner I outlined / proposed above. I’d appreciate any feedback from those with more know-how, which is probably all of you. LOL!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TIA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>