Quote from: hootsmon on October 08, 2012, 10:05 amthanks guys.I hope you don't mind no quotes, too lazy atm.The file is on the disk, and encrypted. It needs to stay on the disk because I need its contents.using gpa, there doesn't seem to be a way to decrypt it other than using the file manager and saving it in the clear to a file.So one option given, if I'm remembering right, is to not use gpa and to use gpg on the command line, I can live with that.for what it's worth my disks are already encrypted including swap. this is for an extra layer.I don't get the problem. With gpa open, you click the clipboard icon. In clipboard, you use File, Open and then open your encrypted file, which will show up encrypted in the clipboard pane. I'm presuming that the file is saved or stored as ascii armored? If not, maybe that is the problem. Use File, Decrypt in the clipboard pane to decrypt the file. The decrypted file is only on the clipboard. Nothing is saved to a file.