recover private key

[David Shaw]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:59 PM, jakse wrote:

>
> dear forum.
>
> I am using GnuPG on my mac.  had a problem and had to reinstall
> everything... lost all data.
>
> from old backup i have some info on my key. The trustdb was created  
> and so
> on, and i have a fingerprint for my pub key, "uid" and "sub".  
> however i dont
> know what this means?!
>
> Is there any way i can recover my private key?

Do you have the file "secring.gpg"?  If so, you have your private  
key.  If not, you don't.

David