> On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:38, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On a Mac is it possible to open a second instance of GC while one is > still running?
Yes, but opening the second instance brings up the lock file warning, and this is the first time I’ve seen that warning in many weeks. It usually happens after a power cut, or when I’ve had to power down the computer without an orderly shutdown. > If so another possibility is that you did not save and > close the first instance so it was still open when you started GC > again? …so I don’t think that’s the problem. > Then you would get the lock message and would find that the > reconcile had not been saved. On the other hand the original one > would still have been lying around, so I would have thought you would > have noticed that at some point. > > Colin What was unusual about the work that preceded this incident was that I clicked “Save” and then promptly shut Gnucash down - I usually find that when I come to quit Gnucash the “Save” button is already greyed, indicating that an auto-save has already taken place. Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.