GnuCash Error: Lock for file

[life0riley]

Hi Jeremy,

Section 2.6.3 of the online GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide explain the 
.LNK and .LCK files.  You are using GnuCash version 2.6.3.  You will need to 
go the to directory or folder where your .gnucash data file is stored and 
delete the .LNK and .LCK. files if they aren't deleted when you click "Open 
Anyway."  Then you will be able to open GnuCash without the warning message.

This same thing happened to me when I was using an older version of GnuCash.

The Help Manual and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide should have been installed 
when you installed GnuCash.  If they weren't you can find the online version 
here.
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_basics.html

Hope this helps,

life0riley

On Monday, August 03, 2015 07:46:39 PM Jeremy Hodess [Capstone Franchise 
Consulting] wrote:
> I am getting the following error message when I try to open my GnuCash
> 2.6.3:
> 
> "GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file:"
> 
> After reading other posts about this problem, I hit "Open Anyway." The, I
> Quit the application hoping this would release lock. Unfortunately, that
> did not work. The file is still locked. Any other steps I should be taking?
> 
> Should I export my files and download a new version?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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