[GNC] HELP! No lock!?

[Jack Slater]

Life is soooo easy when you know the answers! Thanks for the speedy reply!

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:15 PM Tom Balaban <tbalabanjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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