2022 return done from CD. Need to review with Turbo Tax advisor as have in previous years.

[j g]

I may be waking up and smelling the out-of-sync. I took my careful 3 days doing the CD return, showed I owed 0 Fed, $1 CA state.

I then realized I was supposed to move to the online-generated return in order to speak with any TT advisor on errors. I started the online retrun from scratch, took some good time, put in all my income, all my brokerage imports the same - I should be at the same point where I did everything as I did in the CD version.

The online version is showing at this point $0 Fed owed, BUT SOME KIND OF $682 Calif. owed!

Was I supposed to delete my CD-generated return or something BEFORE starting the online-generated return?

I'm in PTSD gawking at this difference! Nothing I want to see here - exactly what I'm seeing. 

Some explanations please, why this could be possible.

[VolvoGirl]

No.  You must have entered something different in the online version.  Your CD return won't affect or be seen by the online version.  

[VolvoGirl]

Or you entered something wrong in the CD return originally.  Compare them to find what's different.  

[j g]

It was as simple as "activating" the state return.  Hadn't imported anything from the federal yet. They synched right up on activation of state. This online version is going to take a little habituating-to.