GnuCash could not obtain the lock file...

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     On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:05 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 Yep, that's what I did and it looks like it works OK.  Thanks for the info
on the lock file.





Kind regards,

Greg Feneis






On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Robert Kesterson <robertk at robertk.com>
wrote:

> The lock file is a simple mechanism to prevent running two copies of
> GnuCash on the same file at once. If GnuCash gets terminated early ( as it
> did in this case) then it makes it look like a copy of GnuCash is still
> running. Since you know it isn't, you can safely tell GnuCash to open
> anyway, which will override the lock and proceed.
>
> > On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ​Hi Folks,
> >
> > Last night I had GnuCash running, got things ready to do my taxes and
> did a
> > save as.  I left GnuCash running on my computer over night when Windows 7
> > decided to do an update and restart the computer all on its own.  Today,
> > when I tried to start GnuCash I get a warning that it could not obtain
> the
> > lock file for the file name that I saved things to.  I got 4 options from
> > the warning to proceed with: I could open read only, create new file,
> Open
> > anyway, or quit.  I selected quit because I didn't know what the
> > consequences of the other 3 paths to go.
> >
> > So, what's a lock file, and why can't it be obtained?  And, which way
> > should I go from this warning?  Or, should I do something else entirely?
> >
> > I'm running Win 7 64, and  GnuCash 2.6.3 ​
> >
> > ​Thanks for any help!​
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Greg Feneis
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