Cannot get a lock on File

[Tim Scheidler]

To whom it may concern,

     I came in to work yesterday and attempted to open Gnucash only to 
discover that the program could not obtain a lock on my file. I had left 
the computer on when I left work Friday, only 'switching users' to bring 
it to the login screen while leaving my programs still running 
(including Gnucash). I came in Monday and my computer had gone to sleep 
and I couldn't wake it. I wound up having to push the reset button to 
reboot the computer. I see that there is a .LCK file in my accounting 
directory. How can I unlock my data files and are they now corrupted? 
Will I have to go to an earlier data set and restore what I'm missing, 
or can I simply delete the .LCK file?


Thanks,

Tim Scheidler