@cottagecharm11
Did you look in the Trash Bin to see if your files were placed there? A user above reported he found his there.
I've gotten in the habit of saving a backup copy of the *.taxYYYY data file to a thumb drive after every working session as a "just in case" maneuver. I've never had to use it since my primary data file has never disappeared after an update. But having seen an occasional story here in the forum, I always back it up.
