Can't save gnucash files

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 6/1/2016 9:10 PM, Raven Long wrote:

>
> It seems like the lock file is disappearing. At least it's gone the last
> two times it happened. That doesn't explain the permission problem, though.
>
> I'm baffled.
>
> Safe Travels,
Misunderstanding how applications use a "lock file" to control access. 
You were perhaps imagining that this was a file that continues to exist 
and that DATA in the file refers to the status (who has it open). That 
would not work. In order to look at the data in a file you must have 
permission to read that file. Instead the EXISTENCE (or non-existence) 
of the file is used because it is possible to check for the existence of 
a file you lack permission to use.

So when a gnucsh data file (a set of books) is opened a "lock file" is 
created in the same directory and when gnucash closes (properly) that 
file is deleted. In other words, when gnucash is told to open a file, it 
checks for a lock file in the same directory and if found, reports "in 
use". That's why you have to override (or delete a left behind lock 
file) if gnucash doesn't terminate normally because in that case the 
lock file wasn't deleted.

Michael D Novack