The TurboTax representative didn’t know what a tilde is. So she checked with other groups. Their final answer was that TurboTax files that have a tilde at the beginning of their file names are still temporary files. However, they don’t know when these temporary files will be automatically deleted.
That must mean my tilde file with the extension .tax2021 (which contains my final tax file because the corresponding file without a tilde is corrupt) is a temporary file that will self-destruct at some point in time -- and I don’t want that to happen, of course. How can I prevent this from happening? How do I make a tilde file that is temporary into a file that is no longer temporary?
