[GNC] HELP! No lock!?

[Tom Balaban]

Simple fix. Close GNUCash. Use File Explorer to navigate to your GC data 
folder. Near the bottom you'll see a file with type LCK. Delete it. Open 
GC and enjoy.



------ Original Message ------
From: "Jack Slater" <theilliniguy at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: 3/13/2019 2:09:12 PM
Subject: [GNC] HELP! No lock!?

>Just tried to start up GC. Fresh boot of Win 10 PC and I get a message
>window:
>
>"GnuCash could not obtain the lock for C:\" ( etc. file location)
>
>option to open read only (wont work for me!),create new file, open anyway,
>quit
>
>I need to get that file open it has all my data!
>
>I do have a back up.
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