On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:31 PM, frank raney <frankraney...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just answered my own question..........The lck file is a temporary file > when the main file is opened. I opened my file read only, resaved it. > closed it and the lck file went away. I opened the file in a smaller > window so I coiuld see my directory and the lck file appeared again......it > went away when I closed the file......so.........what was happening was, > when the program crashed, it did not close the lck file, and when I tried > to reopen it, it thought it was in use........wala......Im back in > business... > > > Frankie Raney > 12454 Auberry Rd. > Clovis, Ca. > 559.297.8577 H > 559.304.1751 C That lck file is the mechanism by which gnucash ensures that each file is only opened once at a time. If that file is there, that means gnucash is using the corresponding ".gnucash" file. Of course, if gnucash crashes and is unable to delete that .lck file, it will superexist the gnucash process. In this case, the correct choice is "open anyway", and copying everything first is an excellent idea, too. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
