I downloaded premier version from amazon. At the last stage of efiling, software is stuck on 'preparing' step for last 30 mins.

[gupta.abi]

I had to force kill the application. On restart, it downloaded bunch of updates and then I was able to efile. Turbox tax can do better job of displaying the errors especially if the software needs update before efiling.

[jessar]

I just got stuck on "preparing" for 20+ minutes and found this response. I tried canceling and trying again but it always got stuck on "preparing". It took closing out of the program entirely and opening it again (it said i had no updates) and now it works.

 

[TerukoL]

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