[GNC] Gnucash won't open?

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 14, 2018, at 1:44 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:11:14 BST Gyle McCollam wrote:
>> I tried opening gnucash, I have been using for over 2 years, and it tells me
>> it can’t get a lock.  I select open anyway and it shows on the windows 10
>> taskbar, show a preview when hovered over the icon, but will not open for
>> use.  I tried shutting down the computer and restarting, but that didn’t
>> help.  What is going on?
>> 
> 
> Have you used a twin-monitor set up in the past?  sounds like GC is opening OK 
> but putting a window or dialogue box "off screen"

That’s one possibility. The other is that you closed GnuCash with the main window minimized and GnuCash has set the window position to -32000;-32000. That misfeature has been fixed for 3.2, but in the meantime you can open AppData/Roaming/GnuCash/books/your-datafile-name.gcm in an editor (notepad will do), find the window position line, and change the coordinates to small positive numbers, perhaps 100;100.

The parameter you want to change is
...
[Window 1]
...
WindowPosition=-32000;-32000;
...

Regards,
John Ralls