[GNC] GNUcash opens, shows correct database, no keyboard response

[Adrien Monteleone]

Michael, none of that has anything to do with a lock file, which is the 
situation the OP is describing.

The OP experienced a lock-file issue while dealing with another. They 
probably aren't really related, and even the lock-file isn't really 
something to waste time on as a big problem to solve. (not the original 
problem, but a temporal effect of another)

Regards,
Adrien

On 11/7/25 10:18 AM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 11/6/2025 6:48 PM, Megan Tilley wrote:
>> This time, when I restarted (start #3), I was told the file was 
>> locked, and
>> I opened it anyway to make a new copy (new filename) as I have done 
>> before.
>> Again, I started to input the new file name, and the typing was No 
>> Response
>> and the stall.
>>
>> Any thoughts on how to fix this?
> 
> How strange. You were having a problem with an application so you wanted 
> to make a copy of the data file. So you decided to do that by opening 
> the application anyway to have it open the file (so you could use its 
> "save as" to make the copy)
> 
> Why did you not simply COPY the file at your "windows manager" level
> 
> << because Windows, Apple, etc. come with only one "windows manager" 
> tend to think of THAT as the OS ----- unix/linux users having a choice 
> of windows managers more likely to realize they are interacting with 
> THAT and not the OS itself -- not many of us work at the command line 
> level (and even THAT is a "shell" >>