I save all my turbo tax data files (.tax I think they're called) to a separate offline disk. But I was wondering about the other files (exe etc). Now that I've filed my 2005 taxes, is there any reason to keep the directories for 2004 and before ???
Duane
If you wish to READ the files you're saving you should! I believe each .tax file can only be read (different from importing from) by the particular year that the .exe file (and DLLs etc.) were also created in.
In other words, TT 2005 can not READ TT 2004 .tax files in the sense of working with the data; it can IMPORT the data for use as a base in 2005, but that's it.
I would make sure you keep copies of either the .pdf files can you print to in recent years of TT, or a paper copy of all the forms and supporting document, or both.
Duane, You will need the original TT program to run an old tax file. For example, you will need TT 2004 to run your 2004 tax file, etc. What I do is to save the original TT disk, the actual .tax file AND the last composite TT update from the web site with my tax files for any given year. It's probably overkill, but if I have to open the original file for some reason, I can load the original TT program and update it with the latest changes before opening the tax file. Jim...
Add in PDF outputs for all tax returns (Fed, State, Complete and Submitted) and you've got it all covered....
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