[GNC] No longer able to access my accounting software

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 2025-06-11 07:49, Vik Sha via gnucash-user wrote:
> Sorry, I thought I had attached the error messages, but here they are as a second trial. In case you do not receive the attachments, the messages are termed as under :
> 
> "GnuCash could not obtain the lock for /Users/vrcs/ Accounting and Bookkeeping 2025-26.gnucash.
> That database may be in use by another user, in which case you should not open the database. What would you like to do?
> Open Read-Only
> Create New File
> Open Anyway
> & Open Folder
> GnuCash u
> Version: 5.4, Build ID: 5.3-412-g53245caebf+(2023-09-23)
> Loading data..
> shot
> 100am
> Quit”
> 
> I hope this helps for you to resolve the problem
> Thanks

Two of us (possibly more) guessed yesterday that this was the message
you got, and posted how to fix the problem.

Short repeat: Look at the answer to question 3.1.7 in the FAQ list,
which is here:

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com/