[GNC] Cannot write to file a new wrinkle

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks Michael, those are fair caveats to my recommendation. I shall 
endeavor to remember that and not assume folks only keep GnuCash data 
and nothing else in a particular folder.

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/30/23 9:37 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> BE CAREFUL --- this control of a resource by having the existence of a 
> lock file indicate "resource in use" is a VERY common solution to 
> restricting use to "a single concurrent user" (allow multiple sequential 
> access but not multiple simultaneous access). OTHER applications might 
> be creating .lck files besides gnucash. So.......
> 
> 1) Delete "any" .lck files only if you have your gnucash files in a 
> directory reserved for just the.
> 
> 2) Otherwise --- before deleting a .lck file make sure it is not a lock 
> file from some other application.