"Gnupg-users" <gnupg-users-bounces+michaelquigley=theway....@gnupg.org>
wrote on 11/08/2014 12:54:30 PM:
> ----- Message from Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org> on Fri, 07 Nov 2014
> 17:32:49 +0100 -----
>
> To:
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> "Robert J. Hansen" <r...@sixdemonbag.org>
>
> cc:
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> gnupg-users@gnupg.org
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> Subject:
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> Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems
>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:09, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
>
> > getting all different kinds of weird errors, from the keyserver helper
> > not being able to communicate with the outside world, to GnuPG
>
> Well, there are no more keyserver helpers. All is done by dirmngr.
>
> > swearing it's created output but no output file being created (!!), to
>
> Hmmm, I can't see that.
>
If your system is trying to write to the Program Files directory, look in
the VirtualStore. This can be found at
C:\Users\{YourUserID}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
I've been bit by several applications where files end up there instead of
the original location. I forget, but I think this feature was introduced
in Vista--don't hold me to that.
> > (The "GnuPG insists it's created output, but none exists" -- this one
> > was so surreal that I was seriously considering whether I was
>
> Sorry, I can't replicate that. Well, with the fixed version but I
> didn't touched anything relevant in gpg.exe.
>
Again, check for the results in VirtualStore.
> > So I repeated the same command line. This time, GnuPG told me the
> > file foo.asc already existed, and did I want to overwrite it?
>
> Is that some weird Windows symlink setup?
>
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