GnuCash could not obtain the lock....

[Dave H]

As a Windows user it's good practice to create a Gnucash folder under your
"My Documents" and keep your Gnucash data files in there !!!

Cheers Dave H...

On 25/01/2015 7:26 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 January 2015 at 20:42, Robert Di Giorgio <bobdi2 at cox.net> wrote:
> > In the past, I got this message every time I opened GnuCash, but "Open
> > Anyway" opened the file unlocked.
> > Now, with the previous version deleted, the current version will only
> open
> > Read Only, making it useless.
> >
> > Current version, downloaded January 2015, (GnuCash installed doesn't
> seem to
> > show its current version), Win 7
>
> It shows the version at the bottom of the splash screen on startup and
> in Help > About.  Where did you download it from (exactly, not just
> 'the website' for example)?
>
> I wonder whether the file is saved somewhere that gnucash is not able
> to write to.  Try doing File > Save As and save the file in your
> Documents folders and see if that helps.  Problems with Read Only
> files  are usually OS related rather than gnucash.
>
> Colin
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