This helps somewhat. I had decided to start with a fresh return file and redownloaded TT for Mac also. I got down the road back to the step by step to foreign taxes paid. As I went through the questions all was normal, but it never asked me the questions for foreign income as it should. Then the amount of the foreign tax credit showed by was less than half of what was on the 1099Div's. I have not gone to forms view yet to figure this out yet as I am MFJ and are less than the $600 safe harbor.
Why would TT not ask the standard questions about country in the step by step view? I am still convinced that the TT for Mac version is not programmed correctly as many years of using the Win version never resulted in such issues.
