[GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 15:03, Anita Graves via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Oh, Geert, I do so wish you were right.  However, I think you missed the sentence where I said that after the crash I unknowingly and unthinkingly and quickly in order to restore my screen, I clicked on ‘Open Anyway’ and that’s when my file was locked and this other ’thing’ called a .LNK sits right on top of my working file and there is nothing I can do to get rid of this.

What do you mean, it sits on top of the working file?

Also, in your first post you said "Besides the fact that now I cannot
access my checking account or other ‘operative’ accounts, the
hierarchy of my accounts was changed, and they appear in a very
different order than what I had been working with."
I think we need to get to the bottom of that, can you explain in more
detail?  Maybe try again with the screenshots, I know people have
posted attachments before so you should be able to get them through
and then we might have a better idea of what you are seeing.

Colin


Colin

>
> What would happen if I delete the .LNK file?  Will my proper working file be restored?  Or would I delete my entire year’s worth of work?
>
> Thank you.  Anita
>
>
>
>
> > On 4 Nov 2018, at 16:54, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> >
> > Op zondag 4 november 2018 14:59:39 CET schreef Anita Graves via gnucash-user:
> >> Dear Gnucash folks.  I just
> >> read on the Internet that the file extension .LNK is a Windows file
> >> shortcut.  What does that mean????  I don’t use Windows and thought I had
> >> downloaded Gnucash for Mac. Thank you all. Anita
> >
> > While on Windows the .LNK extension refers to a Windows shortcut, gnucash uses
> > it differently. It's one of the two files it creates to lock a book (the other
> > file will end in .LCK).
> > In general you should not worry about those two files. If they exist that
> > means gnucash didn't close properly last time you used it. In other words: it
> > crashed. And that's what you said has happened. If they exist, gnucash will
> > warn you that your book is still locked as gnucash itself can't distinguish a
> > crash from another user having the book still open. As you know it's crashed
> > you can choose "Open anyway" and the locks will be reset. Of course as long as
> > *this* run of gnucash still has your book open, the .LCK and .LNK files will
> > remain. They only go away as gnucash quits. And even then, on my system
> > several .LNK files are still lingering next to my test books and they work
> > fine nonetheless.
> > To conclude: the .LNK file is not your worry. You really can ignore or even
> > remove it.
> >
> > Geert
> >
> >
>
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