It's not some optional feature that you can turn off. The "lock" is a sentinel file, to prevent you (or multiple people) from carelessly opening multiple copies of the same file at the same time.
But normally the lock file is created in an instant, or if one already exists you get a failure message in an instant. The fact that your copy is having trouble _acquiring_ the lock (checking for the lock file's existence, or creating one) suggests to me that there is some system problem, like a full disk drive, a read-only directory, or something else that is doing a lot of heavy disk activity at the same time. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-10-25 11:53, Ed Anderson wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know how to turn this off? "Acquiring lock" > _______________________________________________ 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.
