I use Dropbox however I maintain my gnucash data file on my local drive rather than directly in Dropbox. I think from memory the lock file hangs around in Dropbox so when you try to re-open your data file the LCK file is still the and triggers the warning dialog. As others have said you can just click on open anyway if you're sure no one else has it open..
Keep your data file locally and depending on your OS use something like FreeFileSync / Create Synchronicity / etc to sync it to Dropbox when you are good and ready. Cheers Dave H. On 16 January 2018 at 14:39, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Trevor, > > Have you tried making a copy of the file on your local drive and working on > it there. I have never worked with dropbox so I have no idea if it could > confused by the way GnuCash makes backups, for example. > > David C > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Chris Smith <ch...@cgsmith.net> wrote: > > > If you don't have it open elsewhere you can click "Open anyway" > > > > Depending on how it shutdown the lock file may be there. > > > > > > On Jan 15, 2018 9:31 PM, "Trevor Richards via gnucash-user" < > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > > I'm not making much progress... I see I got some replies to my manual > entry > > issues but now unable to investigate further... see attached > screen-prints. > > > > > > > > On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 19:27:21 GMT+8, Trevor Richards < > > tr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I'll bet I'm doing something dumb... but even with date drop-down menu, > I > > am unable to insert any date before 11Jan. See attached. > > > > > > On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 16:43:58 GMT+8, Rick Copple < > > r...@copplecleaningservice.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Trevor, > > > > What exactly is it doing to prevent you from entering past dates? I enter > > them all the time. You do have to enter the / dividers. Like instead of > > 11418 you would have to enter 1/14/18 to get the date to come out right. > > --Rick Copple > > > > > > On Jan 14, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Trevor Richards <tr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > I've been following the user group for years but still not started the > move > > from 20yrs of MSmoney... all looks too hard with an MSM file with records > > back to 1997. > > I thought I could test the water with a new business and associated bank > > account that started in 2016.I've been managing this with a spreadsheet > as > > very few transactions. > > So I set up a business set of accounts and tried entering manually, the > > historic records... I'm immediately stumped. It does not let me enter > past > > dates. Clearly I'm going about this in the wrong way.Advice > > appreciated.Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
