I am furious with TurboTax. I downloaded it and ran it. Got completely finished with the return after downloading lots of data from brokerages, banks, etc. and TT would not save the data! No error code. Just said check the file and try again.
So I came here and saw where I need to run it as Administrator! Why did TT not tell me this? Huh? So I ran it as administrator, but this time I was smart: I tried saving all the data shortly after starting the return. And the SAVE function worked! No error codes! Yippee! Alas, I was exuberant way too soon. After saving, I went through the re-downloading of the bank and brokerage data and finished up the return, so I tried to SAVE it. SAME ERROR again. I think that when I downloaded the data from the various brokerages and banks, it “lost” my administrator privileges somewhere in the swapping out.
So I redid the return a third time. This time, I saved the return on a thumbdrive, my only option since TT bellyached about my harddrive. Then moved the file to my harddrive manually as a workaround. It is an ugly solution but works for me.
