I have GnuCash installed on two Linux computers, with the account files
and logs in a Dropbox folder. In both cases GnuCash was installed from
the repo. It has worked fine for years on one computer. When I start
GnuCash on the other, I get the message "GnuCash could not obtain the
lock for ...gnucash". Checking the account directory there is NO file
*.LCK. When I open anyway and try to save a change, I get the message
"Could not write backup file..." Testing the file permissions, I do
indeed have write privilege for the account directory and can create and
edit some random file in that directory.
When I look at the account directory with command line tools, I notice
that no updated file has been written. For some context, I see that
there is NO file $HOME/.gnucash. There is a $HOME/.config/gnucash
directory but it is empty. Could either of these play a role in telling
GnuCash that the account is being edited by another user? For more
context, when I started GnuCash on the second computer I declined all
offers to teach me.
Are there any directories involved? I don't see any hidden directories
in the accounts folder.
Thanks in advance for any help -- Walt
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