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Posted by Chad Everett on November 16, 2007

Failed to Load OpenPGP Keys From Keyrings »

I have been a user of WS_FTP for a while - years, in fact. I can't even tell you when I started using it. I'm sure that it was in the 1990s sometime. But at one point, I started getting this error - Failed to Load OpenPGP Keys From Keyrings and I just couldn't figure out what the problem was. Eventually, I noticed that the error did come up on the Ipswitch forums, but not until I had already solved it (more than once).

The problem, you see, has to do with the fact that I change computers. A lot. But it can even happen if you don't change computers - for instance, if you upgrade your computer (perhaps to Vista). What is happening is that the location of your keyring - even if you don't use one! - isn't pointing to the same place. So you need to tell the application that it's moved. It's not a difficult change to make either. Here's how.

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