[Kmymoney] KMyMoney Encryption on Windows

[Jack]

On 2014.05.26 15:54, LES TURNER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got KmyMoney running on both OpenSuse and also on a separate  
> partition on a Windows 7 Home Premium install.
> 
> Enryption works great on the KMyMoney install in OpenSuse, but when I  
> try to configure encryption on KMyMoney in the Windows system, the  
> encryption section is greyed out. 
> 
> I installed Gpg4win on Windows before installing KMyMoney and can  
> encrypt and decrypt using this via Windows Explorer without problems  
> so I believe my key is recognised and accepted as valid.
> I use this same key for encryption on KMyMoney / OpenSuse and it is  
> fine.
> 
> The error message I get on KMyMoney / Windows is "GPG is not  
> available for decryption of file G:/Name.kmy".  When I close that  
> error message I get a further error message "File G:/Name.kmy  
> contains the old binary format used by KMyMoney. Please use an older  
> version of KMyMoney (0.8.x) that still supports this format to  
> convert it to the new XML based format".  Initially I had KmyMoney  
> version 4.6.3 on both systems but have since installed the later  
> KMyMoney version 4.6.4 on Windows and am still having the same  
> problems.
> 
> I am comfortable working in Windows but am a novice on Linux and GPG  
> encryption. Simple instructions would therefore be very much  
> appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
> 
> I did check through the Community Forum where someone had apparently  
> got encryption to work on Windows, but following the guidance, I  
> still have the same problem that KmyMoney does not recognise that GPG  
> encryption is in place on the PC.

Les,

Hopefully another user or one of the developers who specifically works  
with KMM on Windows will chime in, but I think the issue is likely that  
you are missing some KDE GPG component utility, which is what actually  
does the de/encryption.  Gpg4win (I believe) is a native windows  
program, where KMM is looking for the KDE utility.  However, it might  
be possible for KMM on Windows to also check for gpg4win.exe as an  
alternative - but that would have to get logged as a wishlist item to  
bugs.kde.org, so for now, I'd advise waiting for other feedback.

For further information, from my limited knowledge of KDE on Windows, I  
assume you used the standalone KMM installer, and not the general KDE  
on Windows installer.  Again, my understanding is that while this is  
generally a much easier approach, and less prone to problems, this lack  
of gpg is one of the side effects.

I'm pretty sure it's possible - but it may take some additional  
installation, or possibly an enhancement to the program.  If there are  
no other responses in a bit, I'll bring it up on the developers list.

Jack