Thanks again Don...appreciate the thorough reply! Sorry, I thought the "contact" website you provided just provided their phone number, not a way to report bugs on that site.
Fyi, 3 issues I've encountered in the past 2 days (other than the depreciation parts not being ready yet, which I understand is due to IRS delays):
1) TT2018 would not pull in my 2017 return after installing then updating TT2018 with the latest updates. And it wouldn't let me run TT2018 without doing the updates because the program part of the updates were marked as "critical", so it doesn't give you an option to run it without updating. After 1.5 hours on the phone with support, we found a way to only have TT2018 do the "program" updates, but not the "forms" updates, and then it was able to read the 2017 file. I could then do the forms updates, and it would still work (well...sort of except for #2 and #3).
2) At least half of the time after I've entered some stuff, it won't save the tax file, and gives an error code that translates to "the folder has been moved", or "the file is corrupt", neither of which are true (well...I can't tell if it's corrupted the file). The "solution" after spending time on the phone with support was to delete data I had entered, re-enter the exact same data, and try again. It turned out it was 1 piece of data in a Sched. E that I had to delete and re-enter. But if I work entering data for 10 minutes, there's a 50/50 chance it won't save my work; I now try to do a save after entering every 2-3 pieces of data, and it may or may not work, but at least I only loose 2-3 pieces of data. Obviously, this is not a workable solution.
3) In forms view, if I try to preview a form in prep. for printing it, it fails at least 75% of the time. Sometimes it gives an error code saying it can't generate the PDF, and suggests I try to save the PDF instead; that won't work either. Other times, TT just crashes and restarts itself, or course loosing whatever I've entered since the last save.
I know it's early in the "season", but hopefully these bugs can get addressed; I'm trying to do some 2018 tax planning before it's too late to act on it (12/31), and I'm literally spending more time restarting and reentering than making progress. (While I'm certainly not a TT expert, this is my 19th year using it, and I've never seen it this unstable...then again, I usually wait to about Feb. to start doing anything.)
