"Your global history is already being used ..."

[Ward Clark]

Brendan Sweeney wrote:

> Hitting Delete gets you through it.

Clicking "Delete Index" had no effect on my Mac.

Eric Cronin wrote:

> In ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb there was an old 
> HistoryIndex.ox.lock that was over a year old which was causing the 
> problem.  Quitting OmniWeb and then deleting the lock manually did the 
> trick.

That's the key.  Deleting my lock file dated 10/16/02 has cleared the 
problem.

Thanks to all who responded.

-- Ward