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I switched computers last year, and in the process, I accidently lost the folder which had my 2023 return information in it and did not print it out. Much to my surprise, when I opened up Turbotax it came up with the screen "Good News! We found your tax info" - which was great to see and it did indeed pull in the information from last year. The screen that allows you to Transfer the Return does not tell you where it found the information. I did all kinds of searches on my computer looking for any *.tax2023 or pdf files, with no luck. Checked all drives, checked One Drive, checked Intuit website, looked for hidden files, shadow directories, etc. etc.
It is not the end of the world, as I can recreate last years tax file with the information that was imported, as well as I submitted to the IRS to get last year tax info, but was hoping I could actually see the file it used and not have to redo some work to have an actual tax2023 file for 2023. I opened up Turbotax 2023 and it did not have any files to open.
So.... Does Turbotax have another method where it can pull the information (hidden database? in registry?), or is there some log file I can see that shows me where it actually pulled the data from?
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Disregard - thankfully, the file was in a folder in the Recycle bin and my searching the hard drive had not turned that up. When I restored the folder, it was back. So confirms that Turbotax does look in the Recycle bin.
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