importing

[David Carlson]

I forgot to mention that there is a setting somewhere called "Use Trading
Accounts" that turns that feature on or off.  I think it is mentioned
somewhere in the documentation.

David C

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:07 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Frank,
>
> There is still a problem with Gnucash on your computer because it should
> not be crashing.
>
> It may be somehow related to the account named Trading that GnuCash
> created.  Normally, GnuCash will only create that account for users that
> know that they want to use a special feature that is there for investors to
> use to help with capital gains calculations, and it normally isn't used by
> most people.
>
> Actually, I am not sure how to safely delete that account (and prevent it
> from coming back) if you do not want it, because it contains transfers to
> and from your security accounts.  Perhaps a developer or another user can
> advise us about that.   That is still not the cause of the crash, the
> developers may need more details about that.
>
> Good luck.
>
> David C
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Aaron Laws <dartme18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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