Here's what we did this morning: my sister deleted the state file from her TT return, saved the return, successfully opened the return WITHOUT the state file, and forwarded it to me.
I successfully opened the return WITHOUT the state file, which is entirely sufficient for my review, and that concludes this tortured tale.
There is a PS: my sister installed the state file in the new return, successfully opened it with populated entries in the state file, and forwarded it to me. I again opened to a repeat of yesterday, with a frozen file and a dialog box calling for a state file download -- and went to Task Manager to end the task.
I've had more than enough,
