topic WHICH TT FILE IS MY CURRENT ONE? in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

WHICH TT FILE IS MY CURRENT ONE?

TurboAlan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:59:40 GMT

I've noticed I have several TT files.

All have the .tax2021 suffix.

Some have a single ~. Others have 2 ~. One has 3 ~.

Even though I work on my taxes daily, the dates of these files in Windows Explorer range from 1-21-22 to 2-4-22. (None shows today's date even though I just finished adding stuff today, 2-16.)

How do I determine which of these various files is the current one so I can then back it up?

Thanks for any help!

Alan

Re: WHICH TT FILE IS MY CURRENT ONE?

bluedeb — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:40:04 GMT

The file with your .tax2021 is your tax return. The files with the ~ are temp files, they show for each day you work on your tax return. They are there in case your original .tax2021 file gets damaged, you can use the temp file to continue with your return. You can actually delete the temp files if you want to.

Re: WHICH TT FILE IS MY CURRENT ONE?

TurboAlan — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:43:32 GMT

Thank you for answering - much appreciated!

I hope this helps others in the future (before I posted here, I tried TT "Help," and Google, but I could not find anything on this topic.)

Thanks again,

Alan