[GNC] Cannot Obtain Lock error?

[Jack Slater]

Yea. I know I had conversations a few years ago.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 8:38 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Didn't we have a long discussion a couple of months back about improving
> this message? I may be remembering wrong, but I thought the improvements
> were going to be in the next version.
>
> This seems to be the single most common query about GnuCash. Surely,
> after living with it at least since version 2, it's time to change the
> text to something more helpful to users.
>
> --
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
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>
> On 2020-11-04 12:28, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > On Wed, November 4, 2020 3:02 pm, Jack Slater wrote:
> >> I used to get this a bit a few years ago.  It has reappeared.  I just
> >> continue to save the file anyway but I get nervous about file integrity,
> >> etc. every time I see it. So what's going on and how do I stop it?
> >
> > Make sure you exit gnucash cleanly and that it fully quits before you
> > shutdown your computer.
> >
> > Either that or you have a filesystem/storage problem where it can't
> > actually create the lock file.
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