Michael, none of that has anything to do with a lock file, which is the
situation the OP is describing.
The OP experienced a lock-file issue while dealing with another. They
probably aren't really related, and even the lock-file isn't really
something to waste time on as a big problem to solve. (not the original
problem, but a temporal effect of another)
Regards,
Adrien
On 11/7/25 10:18 AM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote:
On 11/6/2025 6:48 PM, Megan Tilley wrote:
This time, when I restarted (start #3), I was told the file was
locked, and
I opened it anyway to make a new copy (new filename) as I have done
before.
Again, I started to input the new file name, and the typing was No
Response
and the stall.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
How strange. You were having a problem with an application so you wanted
to make a copy of the data file. So you decided to do that by opening
the application anyway to have it open the file (so you could use its
"save as" to make the copy)
Why did you not simply COPY the file at your "windows manager" level
<< because Windows, Apple, etc. come with only one "windows manager"
tend to think of THAT as the OS ----- unix/linux users having a choice
of windows managers more likely to realize they are interacting with
THAT and not the OS itself -- not many of us work at the command line
level (and even THAT is a "shell" >>
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