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Thanks for what I need to check regarding carry-overs.  I've tried to figure out where the disconnect between my reported numbers on 2024 filings vs 2024 numbers in 2-year comparison vs 2025 have come from, but have stopped wasting time on that. I just updated the 2024 numbers in the comparison table to match actuals manually so I could have a record of my comparison.

No one can log into your computer to adjust things, if that is what you mean. I suggest you look to see if your assets are listed in the rental section. In the rental section, update your entries and look for a screen that says Review your Rental Summary. Click on the option for Assets/Depreciation and navigate to the asset summary screen. Work through that section until you find the screen that says Asset Summary. That will show the depreciation detail for your asset. If you find there are no assets listed there, make sure you didn't set up a new rental somehow, as the assets may be listed under another rental.

I was able to review a diagnostic file and was able to view and print Form 1040X.   If you are using TurboTax Online. Try closing TurboTax, clearing your cache and deleting your cookies. Review the TurboTax Help article How to clear your cache and How do I delete cookies? for specific instructions for your browser. Also, reboot your computer. Hopefully, you will be able to print after this.    If you still can't print, reply back.   You can check the status of your amended tax return at Where’s My Amended Return? 

This is what I did to report Canadian pension income from 2 sources (a private defined benefit pension and Canada Pension Plan) plus US SSA pension income. For both cases, I received an NR4 from Canada [as an aside, it would be really nice if the US standardized its 1099 forms the way Canada has ... it's a bit of a nightmare reading through the 1099 forms from Vanguard, Schwab, Fidelity]. I also have some Canadian RIF disbursements, which TurboTax sort of handles, but not well (I used to do this by creating my own 1099-R; this year, there's a special section but it's confusing because the numbers don't show up the same way that 1099-R numbers do).   I used TurboTax Deluxe desktop (AFAIK, the online version doesn't allow access to the forms).   For the private pension, I simply added the amount as "miscellaneous income" with a comment and it ended up on Schedule 1 Line z (sorry, I don't remember what question I answered to have this happen). In the past, I had tried to create a 1099-MISC but that ended in tears (I forget the details).   For the CPP, which is covered by the tax treaty, I used the "Social Security Benefits Worksheet", clicked on item A (total net benefits from Box 5 of all SSA-1099 forms) and entered my SSA-1099 and CPP information (after doing currency conversions).   So, that left claiming the foreign tax credit, which is an extremely confusing form and TurboTax more-or-less replicates the confusion. Fortunately, I have only 3 sources of foreign income (one of them being "RIC" from investments); it would have been much worse if I had had 4 or more sources. For this, I opened the "Foreign Tax Credit Computation Worksheet" and entered the numbers (using the pop-up "supporting details" to enter all the sources). One complication is that one of my 1099-DIVs is a single stock for a foreign company, and Fidelity combined it on the 1099-DIV with my other investments ... for that, I adjusted the 1099-DIV and created a separate 1099-DIV for the foreign stock. (The reason for doing this is that you need to report all the foreign income for each country if you want to maximize the tax credit)   It would *really* help if every time TurboTax asked for federal or state tax paid, they would allow entering foreign tax paid, even if the IRS form doesn't collect that information. I set up a separate Google spreadsheet to keep track of all the items and used two laptops to go back and forth between TurboTax, the spreadsheet, and my 1099 an NR4 documents (the spreadsheet also helped me record my currency conversions). (I keep scanned tax documents in a Google Drive folder, which lets me scan  the PDFs for details such as "foreign", which each 1099 reports in a different way) It would also help if TurboTax would allow opening a "details" window when entering numbers from the Step-by-Step ... AFAICT, that can only be done when editing a form, and you have to be careful to get to the right form for the source of information (e.g., use the worksheet, not the form, if the worksheet exists).    HTH

You can file an extension, which will allow you to file until October 15, 2026.   This is an extension to file your tax return, not an extension to pay your taxes. You must estimate your taxes due and pay them by April 15, 2026 to avoid penalties and interest.   You can use TurboTax to e-file an extension by clicking here.