And another thought: I dual-boot, so there's no chance of accidentally changing the data file while it's open in both OS at the same time. Somebody running Linux in a VM under Windows (or vice versa), or with multiple computers accessing the main file in network-attached storage (aka a server?), does have that danger, mitigated somewhat by Gnucash file locking which tries to be sure only one user has write access (but easy to override) and any locking provided by the server OS.
THAT is precisely why some of us describe the process of overriding or deleting a file lock including AFTER MAKING SURE NO OTHER INSTANCE OF GNUCASH COULD BE USING THE FILE. We aren't being silly, just including the possibility the resource is available to a network.
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