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I had the same issue with the 2020 version of TurboTax on a MacBook Pro running MacOs Big Sur 11.2.

 

Try to:

 

1 - Create a new user account on your Mac and run Turbotax from that account. If that works, there is some corruption with the old account that you used on the Mac.

2 - I resolved this by deleting all files under ~/Library/Caches/KSCrash/TurboTax

 

Subsequently I was able to startup TurboTax 2020 with no issues.

 

The log under ~/Library/logs/com.intuit.turbotax/2020/*log will show:

 

2021-02-02 22:09:29.314 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] error creating directory: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "You don’t have permission to save the file “ZipFiles” in the folder “KSCrash”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=file:///Users/pvanamstv2/Library/Caches/KSCrash/ZipFiles, NSUnderlyingError=[phone number removed]90 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=13 "Permission denied"}}

2021-02-02 22:09:29.330 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] [Crashlytics] Version 3.9.3 (128)

2021-02-02 22:09:29.367 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] EngineUpdate - setSparkleDefaults entered

2021-02-02 22:09:29.368 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] EngineUpdate - startAnESDAppUpdateCheck - SKUName - premier, Product Year - 2020, Current Version - [phone number removed]

2021-02-02 22:09:29.483 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.512 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.518 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.533 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.541 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.544 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.548 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.551 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.554 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.556 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.558 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] ESD:Validating xml Signature...

2021-02-02 22:09:29.562 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] EngineUpdate - 10 packages info recieved from ESD

2021-02-02 22:09:29.562 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] EngineUpdate - TTMac product is already up-to-date to version [phone number removed]

2021-02-02 22:09:29.691 TurboTax 2020[6918:240595] Terminate called after uncaught c++ exception:

0   TurboTax 2020                       [phone number removed]a5f97b PrintStackAndTerminateOnUncaughtCPPException + 59

1   KSCrash                             [phone number removed]c99e10 _ZL21CPPExceptionTerminatev + 86

2   TurboTax 2020                       [phone number removed]206319 _ZL19CLSTerminateHandlerv + 360

3   libc++abi.dylib                     0x00007fff203f9847 _ZSt11__terminatePFvvE + 8

4   libc++abi.dylib                     0x00007fff203f97e9 _ZSt9terminatev + 41

 

etc, etc.

 

Deleting the directory and will files under step 2 resolved this issue for me. I spent 4 hours on the phone with TurboTax support and they were of no help at all