Gnucash thinks data file is read-only, how to open it for writing?

[Ben Finney]

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> >
> >> Recently, Gnucash (v. 2.4.13) failed to open a data file, complaining
> >> it couldn't get a lock. I closed Gnucash to deal with this, couldn't
> >> find a lock file anywhere, and re-opened Gnucash. From that point on,
> >> though, Gnucash doesn't complain, but neither will it allow me to save
> >> any changes to the file.
>
> See, this is part of your problem.  You should have used "Open Anyways"
> to steal the lock.

That wasn't clear. I didn't know which option would open the file for
writing (it appeared that none of them would do that), so closed the
program to try to clear the lock. After that, the message no longer
appeared.

If “Open anyway” is going to steal the lock, perhaps that should instead
say “Break lock and open anyway” or similar.

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