GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file....
life0riley
life0s_50 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 10 21:47:11 EDT 2015
On 04/10/2015 08:09 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where is the lock file I need to delete to fix this?
> In the same directory as your data file, with the same name as your data file + .LC, e.g. myfile.gnucash.LCK.
>
> But you don't need to delete it, just click "open anyway" in that dialog box after making sure that there isn't another instance of GnuCash running with the file open.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
Is clicking "open anyway" the preferred method?
GnuCash terminated abnormally once on me after I left it open for some
time. I confirmed there were no other instances running and simply went
to the directory where the GnuCash data file is stored and deleted the
lock file. I was able to open GnuCash after that without issue. At
that time I was using GnuCash 2.6.1 in Xubuntu 14.04.
Thanks,
life0riley
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