GnuCash could not obtain the lock....

[Colin Law]

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On 26 January 2015 at 21:14, Robert Di Giorgio <bobdi2 at cox.net> wrote:
> It turned out to be a checked Placeholder in the Checking Account.
> Unchecking it unlocked it.  But the next time I opened the file, same
> problem, except this time the Placeholder was checked in the Accounts file.
> Unchecking that one seems to have solved the problem.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Bob Di Giorgio
> On 1/24/2015 1:25 PM, Colin Law 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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