Problem opening Gnucash

Scumbuster scumbuster at comcast.net
Sat Feb 1 17:21:39 EST 2014


Thanks John!   

I just didn't want to trash anything.

Appears to have opened fine when I chose "open anyway".

Thinking back several days, Gnucash may have been open when I had a system
crash......so I guess that is what generated that.

Thanks again!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 3:17 PM
To: Scumbuster
Cc: GNU Cash User
Subject: Re: Problem opening Gnucash


On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Scumbuster <scumbuster at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I got an error message today while trying to open my Gnu Cash...
> 
> " GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file://C:\GnuCash 
> storage\accounts imported from quicken 102112.gnucash."
> 
> It gave me the option to continue anyway or quit. So I quit, fearing I 
> would mess something up.
> 
> What are my options here?
> 

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_GnuCash_says_that_it_can.27t_obtain_the_
lock_for_my_file._What_should_I_do.3F

Regards,
John Ralls


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