>You can’t transfer from 2022 to the 2024 program. Did you mean 2023?
No, I used 2022 Turbotax last year, and photoshopped each page into "2023". My income is so low the taxable income is zero, figured it wouldn't matter using a year-old program.
>You need to have the data file ending in .tax2023 on your computer to transfer into 2024.
I thought of just changing the file name, but somehow it knows it is a "tax 2022" file. I don't see why it refuses to accept a 2022 file, my name address and ssn don't often change, and the other entries are mostly the same (just different values). It's not a big deal to re-enter stuff, just mildly annoying.
...I'm soooo grateful the competing product runs fine on this 32-bit computer.
>It should be in your Documents in a Turbo Tax folder. If you have it saved somewhere else like in One Drive or on a backup first copy it to your C drive. If you don’t have the actual .tax2023 file you may have the temporary file that starts with a Tilde ~ sign. That’s incase your real file gets lost or corrupted.
Like I said, I did last year's taxes with 2022. Made no sense to spend $50-$70 on a new program, when all it would get me is the $40 state sales tax refund. I have always used brother-in-law's program, but they have disowned me so it's not an option.
>Here's an idea. Do you still have 2023 installed? Try opening 2023 program and see if you can get your 2023 return to show up in it. Go to FILE - OPEN. Then save it again with a name and place you can find. Go to File - Save As. Then start a new 2024 return and transfer from the 2023 file.
2023 wouldn't install. There is an "error-trap" on the installation that interrogates the registry, and if it fails OS number or bit-size it just exits the installation. That's why I called them "arrogant"; makes no sense to lock customers out, make it work for older computers and it is forwards compatible. Bad business model. When I was running W98SE I just changed the registry entry to XP and that satisfied the picky loader. I didn't try changing the bit size flag, I figured variable calls would probably be different. And I probably don't have a 64-bit machine to see what the flag is supposed to be.
I really appreciate the help here (especially yours), I wish more people were like you.
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