[GNC] Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57

[Peter]

   Oh dear,
   In the excitement of finding out that someone else possibly had the
   problem I forgot to add.
   >> Your message has gotten detached from the thread..
   NFI
   >> Do you save your data file on a hard drive?  Do you encrypt it?
   Storage:     Local disk  separate from the OS drive. Has separate
   directory  d:public\data\...........
   Storage method:        XML and compressed
   >> Do you use Windows or another OS?
   OS:            Windows 10 and kept up to date as per MS demands
   Version of gnucash:     4.6, 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9  all exhibit the problem.
   >> Do you use cloud storage for backup?
   NO defiantly NO
   >> Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not
   deleted?
   Whats common?  - Started after a SQLite test gnu version 4.6 .  SQL
   directory was set to be different to the XML directory.
                               - since gnucash 4.9 that SQL directory has
   been deleted but issue still remains

   I follow the standard process of installing the newest version directly
   on top of the previous version. (Seems to be the standard process.)
   I have tried to uninstall the previous version but no different. I
   suspect that there is something that I cannot find or that are hidden
   that I cannot remove as I don't know where.
   It would be nice if the uninstall process did give the option of delete
   anything that was hidden from normal beings view.      i.e do a clean
   install.

   On 19/01/2022 14:32, David Carlson wrote:

   Peter,
   Your message has gotten detached from the thread..
   We need more information to hazard a guess whether your issue is the
   same as that of Gyle or if it is just similar.
   Do you save your data file on a hard drive?  Do you encrypt it?
   Do you use cloud storage for backup?
   Do you use Windows or another OS?
   Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not
   deleted?

   On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 11:05 PM Peter <[1]pandem at iinet.net.au> wrote:

     This is interesting.
     I have had this problem of gnucash intermittently not removing the
     LOCK
     file for some time.
     My method of closing gnucash is firstly to save the data and the
     close
     using the menu. I always follow this process and never use the 'X'
     method.
     August 24, 2021 gnucash ver 4.6, I investigated using SQLlite
     instead of
     the compressed XML for data storage.
     SQLite worked but the resultant file(s) were much larger than the
     XML
     compressed version so I decided to continue to use the compressed
     XML.
      From that date (August 24, 2021) to today I still get gnucash
     intermittently not removing the LOCK file.
     This includes ver4.7, ver4.8 and ver4.9. It may happen ver4.6 but
     unsure.
     Ever time I updated I hoped it would resolve the issue but it still
     happens.
     About 20 days ago I deleted the SQL subdirectory and files from my
     local
     data disk. This seemed to make no difference to the issue.
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