Gnucash thinks data file is read-only, how to open it for writing?

Ben Finney ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jul 18 03:17:29 EDT 2013


Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> On 18 July 2013 01:32, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > You can use the sqlite3 command-line tool to remove the lock:
> > sqlite> DELETE FROM gnclock;
> > sqlite> ^D
>
> I don't use sqlite but is it not the same as when using XML format,
> that if the lock is present on starting one gets an option to open it
> read-write anyway, and from then on all should be well?

This is dealt with in my initial message in this thread. Here is the
relevant part again:

Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Recently, Gnucash (v. 2.4.13) failed to open a data file, complaining
> it couldn't get a lock. I closed Gnucash to deal with this, couldn't
> find a lock file anywhere, and re-opened Gnucash. From that point on,
> though, Gnucash doesn't complain, but neither will it allow me to save
> any changes to the file.

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