Hello,

Excuse me for the rough translation!

You did a great job on the software

I did not find or suggest a new feature, so I post on the forum

I do not know if this has already been suggested but it would be nice to protect access to the software so the accounts password.

Thank you in advance @ + +

We do a protection scheme, not for the software but for the file. You can encrypt it using your GPG key.
That way, it is protected with security developed by people who know much more about it than us. And it's secure even if people can access your hard drive.

All you have to do is save as > select encrypted format. And it will save it encrypted, so long as you have a GPG key setup in your system.

You can add the KMyMoney recovery key, just in case of troubles.

You can read more about it here: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear ... ypted.html

Super thank you for your reply.

I do not have access to the encryption is grayed me as you can see on the screenshot



I'm under windows it may be there a concern?

I think it works in windows, but you have to install additional software.

This thread here says it works, after a couple of steps: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kmymoney- ... 09626.html

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

I managed to create the key, but when I click "Save as ..." (as Open or New) KMyMoney closes without error message.

Well too bad I do with

Can you try to start it from a command line? That should throw a bit more output to figure out what's going on

I use this software for Windows so for the command line is not the same ease as in ubuntu.

I plan to migrate to Ubuntu a few weeks, because I have XP and since Microsoft stopped the support I remain convinced that this is a better solution for me

Hello,

I'm having similar problems to Steph.

I need to get KmyMoney working on Windows 7 Home Premium. The encryption section is greyed out. I've installed Gpg4win and can encrypt and decrypt using this via Windows Explorer without problems so I believe my key is recognised and accepted as valid.
I do have KmyMoney on OpenSuse on a separate drive and encryption works fine on that system using the same key.

When I try to load the encrypted file that was generated on the OpenSuse system, on the Windows version of KmyMoney I get the error message "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". However, both versions of KmyMoney are the same (4.6.3).

I've checked the Path command and the GPG program is shown (C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\pub) so if KmyMoney looks there it should find it. I've also tried to figure out which is the KmyMoney configuration file as sometimes it's possible to edit that to get software to look in the correct location for something, but I cannot be sure which file is which.

Please note: I am reasonably comfortable working around Windows but am a complete novice on Linux and GPG encryption. Simple instruction would therefore be very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

You may wonder why I'm trying to get the Windows version of KmyMoney to work when the OpenSuse version already works well? I need to do my Tax Return and my Tax sofware is only available on the Windows system. I'd love to abandon Microsoft reliance but am not yet familiar enough with OpenSuse to 'cut the cord'.

Edit: I've now installed KmyMoney version 4.6.4 on Windows however I'm still faced with the same issues. I note that the 'Help' link has been fixed (thanks to the KmyMoney team)!

I've also checked through the link of the system that Hei Ku included where someone had apparently got things to work, but following the guidance, I still have the same problem that KmyMoney does not recognise that GPG encryption is in place on the PC.

Help please.

Les

I believe that this topic is discussed in this thread on the user's mailing list.

I'll post this here also so it will be easier to find. If encryption does not work make sure the

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C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe

program is present. If only

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C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg2.exe

is there a workaround is to copy it and name it gpg.exe

Thank you Cristian, your a star!

Problem now solved.

Regards

cristian.onet wrote:I'll post this here also so it will be easier to find. If encryption does not work make sure the

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C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe

program is present. If only

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C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg2.exe

is there a workaround is to copy it and name it gpg.exe

Renaming Gpg2 breaks it as far as your current key ring is concerned. Copying gpg2.exe to gpg.exe DOESN'T prompt KMyMoney to ungrey the encrytion options. Rebooting didn't help. I use Gpg2 with other software; it's OK.

But it doesn't appear that GPG is the problem here. In what file does KMyMoney define the path to GPG? Suggestion-- in a future version consider a new field in the KMyMoney encryption config page allowing the user to manually enter the path to GPG. But if I can manually edit a file to change gpg.exe to gpg2.exe, things would work.

Also-- Gpg is notoriously user-unfriendly, and is overkill for just encrypting a data file. A simple plugin would be great.

Thanks, Frey

Renaming Gpg2 breaks it as far as your current key ring is concerned. Copying gpg2.exe to gpg.exe DOESN'T prompt KMyMoney to ungrey the encrytion options. Rebooting didn't help. I use Gpg2 with other software; it's OK.

The proposed solution did not mention renaming it, that would break your Gpg4Win installation.

But it doesn't appear that GPG is the problem here. In what file does KMyMoney define the path to GPG? Suggestion-- in a future version consider a new field in the KMyMoney encryption config page allowing the user to manually enter the path to GPG. But if I can manually edit a file to change gpg.exe to gpg2.exe, things would work

Yeah the problem is neither GPG nor KMyMoney, it's a packaging problem on Windows. KMyMoney uses the QGpgme library for this task which (due to the way it is built on Windows) is looking for gpg.exe not gpg2.exe. This could be fixed in future releases but in the one that was shipped this is the only workaround. I don't think it's a hard fix to do and it works.

Also-- Gpg is notoriously user-unfriendly, and is overkill for just encrypting a data file. A simple plugin would be great.

That was the way it was done back in the KDE 3 days (directly calling gpg.exe) but I don't think that that version would have been portable. I think it's not a task of the KMyMoney developers to reinvent low-level features like this.