[GNC] Please help

[Adrien Monteleone]

Your work is unlikely to be gone. By default (unless you changed it) 
there is a preference set to periodically save the file. The lock file 
issue is because either GnuCash crashed, or you shut down the computer 
without closing the app first.

Open the app, (choose 'open anyway' if you like, but as you noted, there 
was nothing there) then go to File > Open and then navigate to your 
file. GnuCash *should* remember the last file used, but if something 
goes awry and it does not, then you can simply point it back to the 
proper file.

If you are on a Mac, you *cannot* open a file by double-clicking it. You 
have to open the app first, then use File > Open. While double-clicking 
should work on Windows & Linux, in this case, I'd say it is safer to use 
File > Open.

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/14/23 3:24 PM, Chip Reid wrote:
> I am totally fed up with Quickbooks so I spent some time investigating
> other options.  I really liked what I saw with GNUCash, so I downloaded and
> installed it.  I spent ALL day yesterday inputting all my 2023 transactions
> for 2 bank accounts and 3 credit cards.  I try to open the program today
> and I get a message about GNUCash not being able to get a lock on the
> file.  I know it was not in use because I had just booted up the laptop, so
> I clicked open anyway.  All my work from yesterday is gone.  Nothing.  Can
> someone please help.  This is very discouraging.