I stand by my earlier comments about following suggestions and checking all the permissions, and the difficulty I had saving the file in one place or another. However, in a manner I cannot explain, for some reason unknown, I actually was able to save the file to my desktop. I just kept clicking on the save button. I can't give guidance because I can't explain what happened to make it work.
Once I did get it to the desktop I experienced the beach ball of death and had to force quit Turbo Tax, losing data in the process.
