> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the >> save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it >> possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving? >> >> David T. > > That’s what I was implying, although I would be surprised if Gnucash didn’t > have a means of preventing itself from being shut down while busy doing a > file save. > > In any case, the orderly shutting down of the program (i.e. not involving a > crash) should have included the deletion of the lock file even if it had > abandoned the “Save”. > > Michael >
Further lock file problem: Yesterday evening I completed the failed reconciliation, along with a few other transactions, and quit GC before going out for a few hours at 20:30. Returning home around midnight, I opened my GC file again, and tidied up a couple of loose ends, and closed down shortly afterwards. Today when I tried to run GC, I got the lock file message, and this time I clicked “Quit” rather than forcing the file open. I checked with Activity Monitor that there was no current instance of GC running. Here is a screenshot of the Accounts folder’s most recent files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjvogbdl885rr2d/Screenshot%202019-02-08%2015.12.05.png?dl=0 and the same information via the command-line: | => ls -lt total 84324 -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelhendry staff 221184 8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelhendry staff 95629 8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.20190208000345.log -rw------- 2 michaelhendry staff 0 8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.0.82823.LNK -rw------- 2 michaelhendry staff 0 8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.LCK -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelhendry staff 809 8 Feb 00:01 MDH.gnucash.20190207202353.log -rwx------ 2 michaelhendry staff 1136826 7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelhendry staff 853 7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190207202200.log -rwx------ 2 michaelhendry staff 1136826 7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190208000443.gnucash -rw-r--r-- 1 michaelhendry staff 23810 7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207185926.log -rwx------ 1 michaelhendry staff 1136752 7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207202348.gnucash -rwx------ 1 michaelhendry staff 1136766 7 Feb 18:59 MDH.gnucash.20190207202153.gnucash There is no corresponding crash report, so I conclude that GC has failed to tidy up properly before closing. 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.
