Your work is unlikely to be gone. By default (unless you changed it)
there is a preference set to periodically save the file. The lock file
issue is because either GnuCash crashed, or you shut down the computer
without closing the app first.
Open the app, (choose 'open anyway' if you like,
Can you try opening up a file browser (File Explorer on windows, Files on
macos, etc.) in the directory you have your gnucash accounting file in and
see if there's a .LCK file prepended with the name of your accounting file?
You could try:
- closing gnucash (make sure all windows of it are
I am totally fed up with Quickbooks so I spent some time investigating
other options. I really liked what I saw with GNUCash, so I downloaded and
installed it. I spent ALL day yesterday inputting all my 2023 transactions
for 2 bank accounts and 3 credit cards. I try to open the program today
