Using pass with an existing databaseSolutions to problems during pass database migration

Struggled to properly initialise pass. Fixed the problem by transferring ~/.gnupg from my old machine to the new one.

Managed to remove pass permissions warning:

gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/rostiger/.gnupg'

by setting the folder permissions to 700 using

sudo chmod 700 .gnupg/

I set all containing files to 600 by entering the .gnupg folder and using sudo chmod 600 *

This resulted in an error message when using pass:

gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Fixed the error by setting permissions for pubring.kbx and private-keys-v1/

I used nautilus for this because I didn't know the number codes

drwx------  private-keys-v1.d/ (Create and Delete Files)  
-rw-rw-r--  pubring.kbx (Read & Write for Owner and Group, Read for Others)