Frequent Crash and inability to restart

[Joseph Smith]

I've transferred my personal finance data set to GnuCash and am tweaking 
to get to a valid state.

I have had a few crashes and get the following message on restart: 
"GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file:///Users/etc." (etc. being 
the remainder of the chain name on my computer.)

I have previously fixed the problem by creating a new file.  This 
entails abandoning the work since the last build.

So,

   1. How does one restore from the most recent save (autosave every 2
      minutes)?
   2. How do I get to the help function without starting the creation of
      a new file?

"How does one avoid the crash?" is not as big an issue as is gracefully  
recovering - creating the file from scratch is not graceful.

On the surface, this appears to be a problem that is likely common 
enough that it should have been fixed already.

I clicked on the button |<gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
<mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> expecting to get to a discussion 
group, but got this email page.

Sincerely,
Joseph A. Smith
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