I am so very DISAPPOINTED in TurboTax. Since 2014 I have been using this product to prepare my returns with the program on my family's computer and my return on an external hard drive. I don't believe there was any warning/caution last year against that practice.
My loyalty to the product was definitely based upon being able to bring up all the prior year's base data into the new year.
I did try: copying the 2022 file back on to the hard drive and opening it up in the 2022 TurboTax - no joy there.
One bad side effect of trying to open the file that TurboTax declared corrupt was: trying (several times) to start fresh and select—starting a completely new return—caused the program to close itself. I've had to uninstall then reinstall the product.
Maybe now I'll try to pull up 21 into 22 and see if it can be saved, then carried to 23 with the base data intact.
Sigh.
