[kde-doc-english] Using Kleopatra to Decrypt Files in Windows Explorer

Burkhard Lück lueck at hube-lueck.de
Thu Feb 21 20:52:39 UTC 2013


Hi Joe,

Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2013, 17:49:14 schrieb Joe Perez:
> As a follow-up, I checked the GPG4Win compendium and chapter 18 says I
> should be able to do this using Kleopatra.  Here's the URL:
> 
> http://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium_24.html
> 
> In the subsection "Decrypting a file" it shows a screenshot immediately
> after some text that says I can choose Decrypt and verify in the Windows
> Explorer context menu.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Joe Perez <jwperez at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > Kleopatra was successfully installed on my PC (running Windows 7, 64-bit).
> > 
> >  I successfully created a new certificate/key pair.  I can also
> > 
> > successfully decrypt a file from within Kleopatra via the "File" menu
> > (i.e., File, Decrypt/Verify Files, then pick the file, then key in
> > passphrase).  However, the "Decrypt/Verify" choice is not available to me
> > when I right-click on the encrypted file from Windows Explorer, which is
> > the way we used to do this in the 32-bit world using PGP.  I should be
> > able
> > to open an Explorer window, go to the directory containing the encrypted
> > file(s), then right-click --> Decrypt/Verify.  That choice isn't even
> > available.  Your help in resolving this problem would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > 
thanks for your mail.

But this is the list for people writing documentation for kde, not for user 
support or bug reporting.
Please mail to kde-windows at kde.org or file a bugreportat bugs.kde.org about 
your issue.

-- 
Burkhard Lück



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