Arcane error msg

[Derek Atkins]

This isn't all that arcane; it means one of two things:

1) You already had gnucash running with this file, or
2) The last time you ran gnucash it "crashed" (didn't shut down/save cleanly).

In the latter case clicking "open anyways" is the right solution.  In the former
case you should use "quit" and then go to the currently running instance of
gnucash.

-derek

Quoting JUNIPER <snijuniper at comcast.net>:

> After using GnuCash with little unexpected happening, last night I 
> opened it and made a few entries. Upon closing GnuCash windows I noticed 
> an error saying:
> 
> "GnuCash could not obtain the lock for /home/steve/finance. That 
> database may be in use by another user, in which case you should not 
> open the database. What would you like to do?
>     Quit?              Open Anyway?                 Create New File?"
> 
> I quit, then reopened and found the small changes I had made not 
> present. I made them again, saved and closed. Same arcane msg appeared. 
> This time I "Opened Anyway", made the changes again and saved again. 
> Just opened and closed again, msg didn't reappear. Hmmm???
> 
> SteveJ
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