A possible suggestion from @Anonymous_ --
If you told TurboTax to save your files on desktop, then everytime you work on the return, it creates a temp. backup, marked with a tilde in front of the name of the file. I think it often leaves it there and updates it the next time you open the file to work on the return, thus for safety's sake it always keeps a back-up while changes are being made. This opens up the possibility , especially after filing the return, to either select the directly ( by double clicking the tilde file on the desktop ) or choosing this from the list of files and thus TurboTax on the desktop would be out-of-step with the actual situation. In my personal I always make changes and save these often with a different suffix, but even here I can choose the wrong file because TurboTax doesnot/cannot warn you that you are on the wrong file.
While this scenario explains one possible way that a user might end-up in this situation, it may or may not be the actual situation. But it would be interesting if @dmch1 and @Lizgirlll could look in their TubroTax files and see if this may be the situation.
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