GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file....

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 10, 2015, at 6:47 PM, life0riley <life0s_50 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On 04/10/2015 08:09 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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> Is clicking "open anyway" the preferred method?
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> 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.

Yes, that's the reason for the dialog box.

Regards,
John Ralls