importing

[Aaron Laws]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:31 PM, frank raney <frankraney130 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just answered my own question..........The lck file is a temporary file
> when the main file is opened.  I opened my file read only, resaved it.
> closed it and the lck file went away.  I opened the file in a smaller
> window so I coiuld see my directory and the lck file appeared again......it
> went away when I closed the file......so.........what was happening was,
> when the program crashed, it did not close the lck file, and when I tried
> to reopen it, it thought it was in use........wala......Im back in
> business...
>
>
> Frankie Raney
> 12454 Auberry Rd.
> Clovis, Ca.
> 559.297.8577 H
> 559.304.1751 C


That lck file is the mechanism by which gnucash ensures that each file is
only opened once at a time. If that file is there, that means gnucash is
using the corresponding ".gnucash" file. Of course, if gnucash crashes and
is unable to delete that .lck file, it will superexist the gnucash process.
In this case, the correct choice is "open anyway", and copying everything
first is an excellent idea, too.