topic TurboTax Desktop Question in After you file

TurboTax Desktop Question

melpaw57 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:01:33 GMT

Hello all.

This is something that has always bugged me, but why does TT desktop save 2 copies of my

Tax Return.tax2024 file?

One copy has one ~ at the beginning of the file name, and the other has 2 ~'s, or occasionally there is no ~ at the beginning.

Normally one copy will be a few KB's larger than the other one, and the time stamp will be a couple minutes apart.

This has "always" happened since I've been using TT Desktop (or at least as far back as I can remember).

I'm using both TT Deluxe for my personal taxes and TT Business for a Trust, and it happens in both.

Thanks.

JohnB5677 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:52:23 GMT

The ~ version is the previously saved version of your tax return.

melpaw57 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:02:24 GMT

thank you.

So if there's a copy with one ~, and a copy with two ~~, the copy with one ~ would be the most recent copy?