On 2018-04-27 23:36, Bruce Michael wrote: > I recently bought a new computer and then tried to access a file on Dropbox > that had my accounting data. The file was created with a previous version > of Gnucash. I installed v3.0 on the new computer and when i tried to > access the file it said that it was locked and gave me the choice of > opening it read-only, opening anyways, open another file or quitting. I > have tried the first two and when I due the program crashes. Now, this > message pops up whenever I try to open Gnucash and I cannot access my > data. I went to my old computer and I can still open the file with the > previous version. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I haven't seen any other answers to this. Bruce, GnuCash creates a lock file when you open a data file, to prevent two sessions from editing the same file at the same time. GnuCash deletes the lock file when you close the data file. But if GnuCash crashes, this does not happen, and the lock file remains. Therefore, when you open GnuCash and it finds the lock file already exists, that could mean that another GnuCash is running or that the previous run crashed. GnuCash doesn't know which of those is true, and it puts up the message. If you know that you have no other GnuCash sessions running, then "Open anyway" is your appropriate choice. I remember reading this in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, but I can't remember where. If you haven't read the Guide, you really ought to IMHO. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
