help: Error file lockec?

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Mon May 2 03:26:55 EDT 2016


On 2 May 2016 at 03:52, Chris Tsuji <ctsuji at cheerful.com> wrote:
>    I tried that, but was not able to save

If you are not able to save the file then that is nothing to do with
the message when opening the file.  What version of gnucash and which
operating system are you using.  What folder are you trying to save
the accounts file in?

Colin

>    chris
>
>    Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 at 7:14 PM
>    From: "Mike or Penny Novack" <mpnovack at mtdata.com>
>    To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>    Subject: Re: help: Error file lockec?
>    On 5/1/2016 7:32 PM, Chris Tsuji wrote:
>    > Help.
>    > I get the following message.
>    > what can I do to to get going?
>    > Thanks in advance
>    > Chris
>    >
>    The USUAL reason for getting this is that your previous session did not
>    terminate normally (so the lock was never removed). If you are sure
>    that
>    there isn't (couldn't be) another instance of gnucash running and using
>    that file simply choose the "open anyway" option << did you see that
>    button in the screen shot you sent us? >>
>    The reason that gnucash has the file lock is that there COULD be
>    another
>    instance << remember, your operating system almost certainly allows
>    multiple sessions logged in at the same time and probably has provision
>    for files being in shared data space >>
>    Michael D Novack
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