Thanks bluedeb. Based on an answer from VolvoGirl to a June 5, 2019 post entitled “If Turbo Tax I get another file identical in name except the second file name includes a tilde character before its file name…” she said:
“The ~ is a tilde file. Those are temporary files that you normally don't see and normally are deleted. But this year Turbo Tax is leaving them in the folder in case something happens like your computer crashes…”
I had interpreted this to mean tilde files are now permanent files. However, because my tilde file disappeared, maybe the tilde files are still temporary files subject to automatic deletion. (As mentioned in my original post, my tax2021 file without the tilde became corrupted, and so I resorted to using the backup tilde file as my primary file. I never changed its file name because I thought the tilde file was now a permanent file that won’t automatically become deleted.)
Can someone from TurboTax please confirm that TurboTax tilde files for 2021 tax year are still temporary files -- not permanent files?
Thanks.
