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Posted by Andrew on November 30, 2007, 7:59 am
Please log in for more thread options R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Andrew.
>
> It's entirely possible to have two or more years' TurboTax programs
> installed side by side. In fact, I've done it many times. I would
> probably have several on here right now except that I've had to
> reinstall Windows and Vista so many times - especially while
> beta-testing Vista - that I've not bothered to re-install prior years
> TT after re-installing Windows.
> As has been discussed here before, an accounting program like Quicken
> can serve multiple years. Many users here are still using Quicken
> from at least 5 years ago, and some report still running MS-DOS
> versions. The only reason to update Quicken is to get new features,
> or to continue downloading transactions from banks or other sources
> after Intuit "sunsets" online access support for the older versions.
> Trying to share a single QDATA fileset between two years' versions of
> Quicken is usually a recipe for disaster.
>
> But an income tax program must be re-written each year because tax
> rules, exemptions, deductions, etc. - and the forms themselves -
> change each year and last year's program will not get the right
> results for this year. Each year's program must create and use its
> own separate data files, as well as the application files. But it is
> entirely possible, and often desirable, to load a prior year's data
> into that year's TurboTax program to reprint a form or to research
> the facts reported there - or to help prepare an amended return for
> that year. Of course, each year's program files and data files must
> be clearly labeled and segregated.
> On my computer, I have a folder named E:TurboTax, with two
> subfolders for each year: TurboTaxTax05 and TurboTaxTax05Dat, for
> example. When I clicked its ttax.exe just now, it warned me that it
> needed to be updated - which it did for me when I said OK. Then I
> had to Browse to find my '05 return and TT05 loaded it. ;<)
>
> RC
>
>> Andrew wrote:
>>> I installed TT Deluxe this past week for t/y 2007 on my XP system.
>>> Under the TURBOTAX install folder are now TWO versions of TT - one
>>> for 06, the other for 07. Each folder fully populated with the
>>> exes, dlls, etc.
>>> I don't recall seeing multiple years sitting on the computer at the
>>> same time - not that it bothers me in any sense, and maybe I even
>>> manually uninstalled the prior years version in the past and just am
>>> having a senior moment now. But has anyone else noticed this 'new'
>>> behavior, or indeed, is it just me forgetting the past?
>>>
>>> (And the are two entries for both 06 and 07 in the UNINSTALL PROGRAM
>>> panels).
>>
>> Perhaps the title of this post might have been better "TT 07 on my
>> computer along with TT 06"!
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>> Regards -
>>
>> - Andrew
OK RC - thanks - I guess I must have manually deleted the previous
incarnation each year then. I could have sworn that I did not do this in
year's past. Oh well! (And of course, I understand what you say. In fact,
I just this week had to file a 1040X amended return (using last year's
program before I installed this years) and it specfically urged you to do
the 1040X using the t/y program that created the original return; also
offered a link to purchase it if you didn't still have it!
Thanks!
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Regards -
- Andrew
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