I just answered my own question..........The lck file is a temporary file when the main file is opened. I opened my file read only, resaved it. closed it and the lck file went away. I opened the file in a smaller window so I coiuld see my directory and the lck file appeared again......it went away when I closed the file......so.........what was happening was, when the program crashed, it did not close the lck file, and when I tried to reopen it, it thought it was in use........wala......Im back in business...
Frankie Raney 12454 Auberry Rd. Clovis, Ca. 559.297.8577 H 559.304.1751 C On 10/11/2017 12:21:33 PM, frank raney <frankraney...@gmail.com> wrote: OK........ So I redid the import and saved my self periodically....everything was going well.....Untill I deleted an accoiut that was called Trading....I did not have that accoiunt in quicken by that name. It is my IRA.......when I deleted that file, the program crashed again. I had just saved before I tried to delete. (it also saved its own with date...... When I tried to open my file I got a message that the lock file could not be found... I opened the backup created by GC but the main checking account is not the same..... The message was " GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file://C:\Users\Frankie\Documents\gnucash\mydata 2017.gnucash. That database may be in use by another user, in which case you should not open the database. What would you like to do?" There are options to open read only, create a new file, open anyway, quit. this is exactly what happened tbefore, but I opened anyway..... the lock file exists (lck file) but is 0 bites and is an hour old... What is this lock file? I am going to copy the whole dir and then try to open read only, then resave. Frankie Raney 12454 Auberry Rd. Clovis, Ca. 559.297.8577 H 559.304.1751 C On 10/10/2017 10:22:24 AM, Frankie Raney <frankraney...@gmail.com> wrote: Only backups was the ones within the first 20-15 min, nothing else during the 4-5 hrs of work. I have started over and as before, only one acct is off, my main checking....almost $6000 off. What I will do is compare balances every 2-3 months, untill I find a spot they do not agree, then delete the duplicate. This is the fastest way with a 1.2 Meg file. This time I will manually save every 10 min... Someone mentioned XML and SQL....these should already be installed since I use other databases? Or will I have to install them for use with GC. On Oct 10, 2017 7:01 AM, "Colin Law" <clan...@gmail.com [mailto:clan...@gmail.com]> wrote: Are there any of the backups there somename.gnucash.nnnnnnnnnnn? The number string is the date/time that it was taken. These will be mixed up with the log files so you may not have noticed them. Colin On 10 October 2017 at 14:30, Frankie Raney <frankraney...@gmail.com [mailto:frankraney...@gmail.com]> wrote: > Did a search, that's how I know it went to lala land. Can't remember ever > having this happen before. > > On Oct 10, 2017 2:50 AM, "Liz" <ed...@billiau.net [mailto:ed...@billiau.net]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:39:34 -0700 >> Frankie Raney <frankraney...@gmail.com [mailto:frankraney...@gmail.com]> >> wrote: >> >> > Yes, yes, and yes. It was, is the only file....when it crashed it went >> > away....I saved it after importing, and looked at it with file >> > browser....it was there....then I went back, run GC and started >> > editing......when GC crashed, the file went to lala land. Only the >> > log file was left..... >> >> basic idea, but in case lala land is still on your hard drive, a search >> for *.gnucash is worthwhile >> >> Liz >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org [mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org] >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> [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 [mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > [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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ 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.
