[GNC] HELP! No lock!?

[Jack Slater]

I’ll do that from now on now that I know it’s safe 

> On Mar 13, 2019, at 1:48 PM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I find it much simpler to click "Open anyway" since I know no one else has my Gnucash file open.
> 
> On March 14, 2019, at 12:01 AM, Jack Slater <theilliniguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
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>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> --
>>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>> 
>> 
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