When mod priviledges are modified back to a typical 755, the extracted file "19950817 Fort Lauderdale 08.jpg" appears (image wise) as the first 75% of he original file. The lower 25% of the image is missing. So it seems that the last portion of the file has not been extracted. I have identified the volume containing the failure The offending file "19950817 Fort Lauderdale 08.jpg" exists across the volume boundary, spans 19 segments from th last part of vol582 into vol583. The first volume (vol582) produces a gpg fatal error. The second volume (vol583) does not (see below). gpg --decrypt /media/Poodle/backup/media/MadDog/Archive/duplicity-full.20110205T061747Z.vol582.difftar.gpg > duplicity.difftar You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "First Last(Duplicity key)