Most of us can spell "2004", "2005", etc.

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If the user doesn't know the file name then it is hard to
search.

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Assuming that the user uses the tax year as part of the file
name.

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If you ask TurboTax to place the file in a particular
directory it remembers this location. I doubt that you can
manually move the only copy of your TT data file to a new
location and then have TT find it on its own.

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Just run file search for the name of the file to find it.
Even just searching the year number will probably find a a
small number of such files.

My turbotax finds copies, no matter where I put them,
because I presume it runs a computer-wide search for .tax
files at startup time.

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"Captain Jim" <jlight0624[at]earthlink.net> wrote:

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Sorry to answer so late.

As has been said you just need to copy your 2004 TurboTax
data file to your new computer. The problem is that by
default TurboTax does not tell you where it has stored this
file.

I have not used TT since 2001 tax year, but assuming they
have not changed the basic file system, you should search
for a file of type "tax" using the Find File function of
Windows. That is enter *.tax in the Find File search box.
Copy that file to a removable disk: floppy, ZIP, USB or even
CD-ROM. Then put the copy of the file into any convenient
directory on your new computer, such as My Documents\Income
Tax Data. (You can also copy the file over your home network
if you have one.) When you use the Import last Year's Tax
Data function in Turbo Tax you will have to show TT where
you placed the 2004 file.

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Vic Roberts
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"Captain Jim" <jlight0624[at]earthlink.net> wrote:

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just copy your old tax file into new computer, then 2005
turbotax will read 2004 tax file and transfer info to 2005
tax file.

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I did my taxes on my old computer using Turbo tax 2004. How
would I go about getting it on my new computer. I've already
installed TurboTax 2005 on the new computer but I need some
information from last years return to complete this year's
return. Will I need to install the old software?

Thanks

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