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Returning Member
posted Apr 4, 2021 12:00:33 PM

Updating and restarting

Starting Turbo Tax 2020. It states it need to update. Won't update. Says to manually update. Down load update [phone number removed] and it will not install because it can not fine Turbo Tax 2020, which is on the F drive. After failing to update, it states it is restarting Turbo Tax. Never does. This happens every update! It takes retrying for anywhere from 2 days to 3 weeks.

I have restarted the computer, stopped any firewalls, closed all programs

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Level 15
Apr 4, 2021 12:08:42 PM

You downloaded the manual patch?  Try moving the patch to the same directory that the program is in before running it.

Returning Member
Apr 4, 2021 12:22:05 PM

Did not work. Ran as admin as well.

Level 15
Apr 4, 2021 12:34:19 PM

Having the TurboTax program on a drive other than C:\ will cause unforeseen issues.  You should consider uninstalling the program from the F:\ drive and re-install on C:\

 

I would also suggest using Revo Uninstaller, a free application, when uninstalling from the F:\ drive as the normal Microsoft uninstall leaves behind files that may interfere with the newly installed program on C:\

https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo-uninstaller-free-download/

 

This is not a TurboTax recommendation, only a personal one since I have used this in the past when one of the Beta TurboTax programs that when uninstalled interfered with installation of the TurboTax 2020 software.

Returning Member
Apr 4, 2021 2:25:55 PM

A little long in the work around, but it worked. Thank you