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This worked for me.  I submitted my Federal return without the State (Michigan) return.  That went fine.  My Federal was accepted after about a half an hour.  I thought I might as well try the State again.  When I started TT this time, a state update was installed which apparently hadn't installed in a few previous restarts trying to solve problem.  After this update, the State return submitted successfully.  We'll see if it is accepted. 

 

This all occurred on a Sunday evening, so I doubt if Intuit was releasing new updates during this time... it seems to be a problem with the update process.  I wasted a couple of hours on this.   No stars for TT this year.