Re: Seahorse ate my public keyring

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> Is this a known problem?  Is it fixed?
> 
> I am using Seahorse 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 7.04; I see there are more recent
> versions of Seahorse available, thought his is what Ubuntu provides
> through apt-get.
> 
> I was using Seahorse to adjust trust and validity of keys on my ring,
> and apparently, when it saved that, it wiped out all the keys in
> pubring.gpg, and left a useless pubring.gpg~ of identical size as a
> backup (the two files have the same timestamp).
> 
> I set up my keyrings using GnuPG 1.4.6.

Seaherse never accesses the keyrings directly. It only issues GnuPG
commands. So any wiping out would have been done by GnuPG itself.

Still a terrible thing to happen though.

Sorry bout that,
Stef Walter