Quote from: telepathicluv on November 02, 2012, 01:17 amI am following all of the directions to decrypt a message in textedit, but every time I do, I get a message that says decrypt failed! error code = 0. I have the latest updates from gpg tools and I have been successful in sending encrypted messages, just not decrypting. any advice?The only thing offhand that I can think of, is perhaps you have not set TextEdit to use plain-text, instead of .rtf format? Also, when you copy and paste into TextEdit, use Command-A to select all the text so everything is copied to the clipboard; use Command-C to copy from the clipboard to TextEdit. If messages are not properly copied, i.e. if any of the 5 dashes in the -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- or -----END PGP MESSAGE----- is missing, it will cause gpg to throw an error message. If all else fails, then you may have to resort to the command-line. I realize that this will suck from your perspective, but you may have little other option to decrypt your messages. What you want to do is first, when you paste the message into TextEdit, save it as a file, usually under Documents. For the purposes of example, let's call the file decrypt.txtThen open up a Terminal, by: Finder --> Services --> Terminal. You will then find yourself at a command prompt. Switch to the Documents folder by issuing the following command: cd DocumentsN.B. commands in Unix operating systems are case-sensitive. Decrypt by using the following command: gpg --decrypt decrypt.txt >decrypted_fileYou will be prompted for your passphrase, after which the decrypted message will be found in the Documents folder under decrypted_file.