Griffin / Bueller ?

None of your screen shots made it to the mailing list - you have to attach
them to an email not paste them in-line.  You don't have to delete the lock
file manually, you should be able to click on open anyway if the lock file
is present and Gnucash will open anyway :-)

Cheers David H.

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 11:26, Griffin <grif...@bernevyl.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to reconcile accounts that have got way behind. They are
> stock (options) trades that might have been entered before I understood
> how trading accounts should be setup.
>
> When I view the register for the account, I notice some of the records
> display a box with a square in it, in the top left corner of both the
> deposit and the Withdrawal field. When I tab through the deposit and the
> withdrawal fields as the focus leaves the withdrawal field, a dialog
> pops saying the transaction needs to be rebalanced.
>
> The transaction split looks like this. You can see the box with a cross
> in it
>
> As I don't know what needs to be balanced I click on "Let GnuCash add an
> adjusting split", and I click <Rebalance>.
>
> The transaction split, then looks like this.
>
> As I move onto the next transaction, and follow the exact same steps,
> after clicking on <Rebalance>, there is a pause of 1 to 2 seconds,
> following which GnuCash silently crashes.
>
> When I reopen GnuCash I am presented with cannot get a lock popup
>
> I can delete the file 2024 Accounts.gnucash.LCK to restart GnuCash.
>
> Nothing has been changed of course, and there was no time to save
> anything. Some times Even the first try ends abnormally.
>
> Any ideas, anyone, Bueller… anyone?
>
>
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