Where are the gpg keys (my private key) stored?

[brallan]

I was using enigmail and thunderbird to do gpg encryption, and now that I reinstalled, I cannot get them working to decrypt my messages again.

I have a backup of the home directory, how can I recover my private key?

[Bachstelze]

Just copy .gnupg over to your new home directory.

[brallan]

hmmm. did that, but it didn't seem to find the key. I even reinstalled thunderbird, enigmail, and seahorse.... is there something i still need to do to get the key to be detected by gnupg?

[Quackers]

Try opening Thunderbird and clicking on OpenPGP tab then Key Management then File then Import keys From File and navigate to your GPG key file. Double-click it. Any better?