Peter, Your message has gotten detached from the thread..
We need more information to hazard a guess whether your issue is the same as that of Gyle or if it is just similar. Do you save your data file on a hard drive? Do you encrypt it? Do you use cloud storage for backup? Do you use Windows or another OS? Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not deleted? On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 11:05 PM Peter <pan...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > This is interesting. > > I have had this problem of gnucash intermittently not removing the LOCK > file for some time. > My method of closing gnucash is firstly to save the data and the close > using the menu. I always follow this process and never use the 'X' method. > > August 24, 2021 gnucash ver 4.6, I investigated using SQLlite instead of > the compressed XML for data storage. > SQLite worked but the resultant file(s) were much larger than the XML > compressed version so I decided to continue to use the compressed XML. > > From that date (August 24, 2021) to today I still get gnucash > intermittently not removing the LOCK file. > This includes ver4.7, ver4.8 and ver4.9. It may happen ver4.6 but unsure. > Ever time I updated I hoped it would resolve the issue but it still > happens. > About 20 days ago I deleted the SQL subdirectory and files from my local > data disk. This seemed to make no difference to the issue. > > > > On 19/01/2022 06:17, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote: > > Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > gnucash-user-ow...@gnucash.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: Exiting GNUCash (D.) > > 2. Re: Exiting GNUCash (David Carlson) > > 3. OneDrive (men...@fastmail.fm) > > 4. Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 (Heide Wang) > > 5. Re: OneDrive and GnuCash (davidcousen...@gmail.com) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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. > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
