[GNC] Help

[Lesley Burton]

Hi
Not sure if you had my previous correspondence as have not heard anything. I am still not able to open my accounts package and am getting behind. My oldish laptop is 64 bit not sure if this makes a difference. 
Lesley



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Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 13:47 +0100 from Geert Janssens  <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>:
>Op dinsdag 17 april 2018 05:05:06 CEST schreef John Ralls:
>> > On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Lesley Burton < lesleyaburton at gmail.com >
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I updated GNU-cash last month with the update and am unable to open my
>> > accounts now I keep getting an error message saying ‘Gnucash could not
>> > obtain the lock for file://C: followed by the path and underbit saying
>> > the database is in use by another user. If I ask it to open anyway it
>> > just all closes down. I am running windows 10!
>> There are a couple of know bugs that match that rather cursory description.
>> One involves non-ASCII characters in saved-reports-2.4 and config.user, the
>> other bad dates (ones before 1400).
>> 
>> Both have fixes and a nightly build,
>>  https://wiki.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.0-2018-04-16-git-3.0- > 75-g87f94abc8+.setup.exe
>> < https://wiki.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.0-2018-04-16-git-3.0
>> -75-g87f94abc8+.setup.exe>, is available for Windows users to test.
>> 
>
>The nightly build mentioned above won't run due to a missing dll. I have just 
>now created a new installer to fix that:
>https://wiki.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.0-2018-04-17-git-3.0-75-g87f94abc8+.setup.exe
>Please test with that one and report back.
>
>Geert
>
>