topic Re: Weird Files in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Weird Files

cr-stagg — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:11:34 GMT

Has anyone noticed weirdly named files in their Turbo Tax folder. Like this: ��UT�

or ��·�

Re: Weird Files

JohnB5677 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:57:19 GMT

No, I haven't seen that! Please Clarify the situation.

Are you seeing it on the Desktop, or is this Online?
Do you continue to see it?
What areas is it appearing in?

Re: Weird Files

SteamTrain — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:08:13 GMT

@JohnB5677

I've noticed them 2 or 3 times in the past 2 months....last time was a couple weeks ago.

....but as I interface with both the Online and the desktop software...and the community daily, I haven't yet figured out which access causes that file to be generated.

My Windows OneDrive complains about it containing illegal characters in the file name. I've deleted it each time it showed up with no effect on any of my files, at least none that I have seen.

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Though, now that I think of it...that file popped up in my TurboTax directory that stores my Desktop files...so it must have something to do with the desktop software.

Re: Weird Files

cr-stagg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:59:25 GMT

On Desktop[.

Files always there unless I delete because OneDrive is complaining about them.

Location is C:\Users\crsta\OneDrive\CRS Documents\Documents\TurboTax

That is location of saved PDF files of previous tax years.

And there is no affect to TT if I delete them as someone else remarked.

FYI Just ran TT and dates on files did not change. I think the date on one file is same as last update 1/22/26 and other is same a previous update1/20/26. I have entered new data and saved since last version update.

Re: Weird Files

VolvoGirl — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:55:15 GMT

I have them too on Windows Home & Business. I made a screenshot before when there were 2 of them. Now I have 4 in my Documents - Turbo Tax folder with my .tax20yy files.

12/12/25

1/13/26

1/15/26

1/25/26

Re: Weird Files

user17698055709 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:42:21 GMT

File in my TurboTax directory. Octal dump of file name is:

` 357 277 275 357 277 275 C 357 277 275 _

Content is 77 lines similar to this:

{"@timestamp":"2026-01-30T15:22:53.364-05:00","@version":"1","message":"error loading StaticContentAsset com/intuit/ctg/fuego/topic/retirement_excess_accumulations/nls/schema.json","logger_name":"com.intuit.sok.util.StaticContentReader","thread_name":"boundedElastic-3","level":"ERROR","level_value":40000,"phase":"intermediate"}

Re: Weird Files

paivers — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:19:29 GMT

I have seen that. This morning it is "`�Ѹ�". The name is random, and onedrive flags it. I found that you can safely delete them. Mine are saved in Documents\TurboTax. I had no other needed documents there, so if the same for you, you should be able to exclude from OneDrive Synch.

Choose which OneDrive folders you want to sync on Windows or macOS - Microsoft Support