[GNC] HELP! No lock!?

[Jack Slater]

Hi Derek - I used Tom's answer:
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.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:22 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
>
> On Wed, March 13, 2019 2:09 pm, Jack Slater wrote:
> > 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
>
> First thing to try:  Do you have another copy of GnuCash open?
> If NOT...  What happens of you try "Open Anyway"?
>
> Here's what's going on.  When GnuCash is open, it creates the lock file to
> ensure a second copy doesn't grab the file and possibly cause you to lose
> data.  If you shut down the computer while GnuCash was still running then
> GnuCash didn't exit cleanly and, as a result, didn't delete the lock file.
>
> The "Open Anyway" option is basically your way to tell GnuCash that this
> is what happened.
>
> So, does that work?
>
> > I need to get that file open it has all my data!
> >
> > I do have a back up.
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek
>
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