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[John Ralls]

Christine,

That confirms my earlier belief that GnuCash was in fact running when you moved your files.
Quit GnuCash and re-start it. This time when you get that dialog click "Open Anyway".

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi john
> Yes
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
> Sent: 14 November 2017 18:18
> To: Christine
> Cc: GnuCash
> Subject: Re: files
> 
> Christine,
> 
> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
> 
> Is it read-only because you got the "unable to obtain the lock" dialog and
> selected "open read only"?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi john
>> I have windows 7 and can't remember how I opened it before, but this 
>> time I used open with and the file is read only so I cannot add more 
>> to the accounts.
>> Regards
>> Christine
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us]
>> Sent: 14 November 2017 03:56
>> To: Christine
>> Cc: GnuCash
>> Subject: Re: files
>> 
>> Christine,
>> 
>> That is what I meant. How did you then open the file in the new location?
>> What operating system/distro are you using?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 13, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi John
>>> Sorry I panicked and could not find out where to send messages. 
>>> Gnucash was not open when I placed the files in a folder. If that is 
>>> what
>> you mean.
>>> Kind regards
>>> Christine
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us]
>>> Sent: 13 November 2017 01:55
>>> To: Christine
>>> Cc: GnuCash
>>> Subject: Re: files
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 12, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Christine via gnucash-user
>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello
>>>> All my files are on the desktop where I saved them. So I put them in 
>>>> a folder and now when I try to open one of the pages, it asks me to 
>>>> save it, if I click on save it wants a new path, how can I work from 
>>>> a main folder pls?
>>>> Christine
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please don't reply to messages when you want to start a new thread, 
>>> it doesn't work.
>>> 
>>> Was GnuCash running when you moved the files?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>> 
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