Well this is kind of annoying to say the least. I wanted to look up my Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for last year, 2025. So I started up my copy of Turbo Tax Deluxe 2025 which I had used to do my taxes. I hadn't used it for months and when I started it up it requested permission to download some updates which I perhaps unwisely granted. The download took close to an hour (perhaps a warning sign) and when it was finally installed and the program opened my return information (federal and state of New Jersey) for 2025 was nowhere to be found. The program acted like a new purchased copy.
I eventually exited the program and looking around on my computer was still unable to locate any return information for 2025 except for a pdf copy of my federal return which Turbo Tax could not read. I believe there should have been somewhere some *.TAX2025 files in some Turbo Tax format which would have contained all the information I had entered while doing my 2024 taxes. But apparently for some reason while updating Turbo Tax erased these files.
This may be a relatively harmless error in my case. My returns are filed and I have received my refunds. Hopefully no problems will arise and I will not need to use the program further. And I do have paper copies. But obviously this was an extremely bad thing for Turbo Tax to do which could have had much worse consequences.
