Quote from: impatiens on October 28, 2012, 03:33 amthanks. the problem is once I get to this point trying to encrypt I cannot."Then use Shift-Command-E to encrypt. GPG will pop-up a list of public keys in your PGP keyring. Each key will have a little checkbox beside it which you can check, to select that particular key. "no list of public keys pops up even though the public key was imported and appears on the keychain list. I imported it but cannot encrypt. The commands don't come up in textedit even when the text has all been selected. As Guru's instructions outline below, a key variable is the version of OS X you're running. QuoteGuru's instructions:GPGTools is highly version dependent -- depending on which version of OS X you have, it may or may not work as expected. If you have Leopard (10.5) then you're pretty much out of luck. Your only option then will be using the command-line.If you have Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8), the following instructions should be sufficient to allow you to get up and running.Download and install GPGTools: http://nightly.gpgtools.org/GPGTools_Installer-trunk.dmg So, the questions are: - Which version of OS X are you running? - Have you installed the nightly build of GPGTools? If you're running Snow Leopard or later, and you have installed the nightly build of GPGTools, and it still doesn't work, then I'm afraid the only option for you is to use the command-line.