Could not obtain the lock

[David Carlson]

Moira,

You have the attention of several different experienced GnuCash users from
various different backgrounds, and we all share your frustration.

Your experience does not match that of a typical user.  In my opinion there
is something unusual about your computer or how you managed to get the file
onto it with apparently different privileges than you have now.  However, I
am not an expert in privileges, so I cannot help you with that part of your
problem.

Another experiment that I can suggest is to try creating a new GnuCash data
file either on a USB key or in a sub-folder on your desktop, and see if you
can create a couple of accounts and transactions.  Try playing with that
for a while, and create and save a text file or a Word document.

Good luck and let us know about your progress.


David C

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:53 PM, <moirag at web.net> wrote:

> > On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:19:21 GMT moirag at web.net wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> It has to be on my desktop?? OK, i'll try that ... tomorrow ... and
> >> report
> >> back.
> >>
> >> Moira
> >
> > No it doesn't have to be on your desktop, but for testing purposes it is
> a
> > handy place that we know exists!
>
> Oh, well I already tried saving it in a new folder, and that didn't work.
>
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