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Not to pretend I got fully into the habit over some very mature prescience or something. Sometimes you can still find someone who will send you something old if you ask, but it's certainly more convenient if you've got it yourself. Even great devs can get bought out or go bankrupt or undergo a major course change (like switching to a pure subscription-based business model) or whatever. Although again, worth remembering that if it's not on your own system under your control there is a bit of a foundation of sand to any web dependency.
2015 turbotax for mac download#
I wish I could say I'd never seen non-sensical download policies and arbitrary vanishing of older stuff and such from anyone else but it seems sadly prevalent in some fields.
2015 turbotax for mac software#
Why? Why can’t I just download the software directly? I truly don’t understand what the reason is.
2015 turbotax for mac mac#
The thing that gets me with this is not that the Mac software is bad, which I expected, but all the bullshit with having to request a download link that expires after one use. can you use Virtual Box to run old copies of MacOS or need to purchase a commercial hypervisor? You can get a few terabytes of good old spinning rust for a song, it really is worth just hanging onto older installers, it's hard to predict when you might need them once again and link rot is a huge problem. Native VMs lack 3D accel but that doesn't matter for a task like this with productivity software where you really just need to do a single specific task. That said in general when dealing with Mac software from big corps in particular: never throw out installers, and keep some VMs with older installs of OS X/macOS on hand too (you can virtualize back to 10.6 no problem which is probably good enough for most uses, after that it's necessary to start looking at emu and layering and such and things get much trickier). If you still feel like your blood pressure is too low you might enjoy doing a bit of Internet browsing about how they specifically lobby government against any effort to make filing taxes easier or automatic for common, simple financial situations as exists in much of Europe for example. oh, and then I discovered that I had actually filed correctly and didn't need to make any amendments in the first place, but that part's my fault So even though I was only editing one return, I had to spend $50 on the add-on for the other state that I wasn't editing, just to get the file to open. Now the problem is that because I filed in multiple states that year, the return won't even open unless the add-ons for each state are installed, and you only get one for free. Now I can finally amend one of my state returns, which is what I intended to do an hour and a half ago (well, actually three days ago including waiting for the download link). I run that and finally I can launch the app without it crashing. So I dig around some more and eventually find a different post, with a different link to the shell script, that someone else was kind enough to upload because the "official" post from TurboTax was never updated with a working link. I click the download link for the shell script – broken link. Since the 2015 app is no longer updated, the workaround is to download and run a shell script that fixes whatever it is that's causing the crash. So I search around and eventually come across a post on the TurboTax support forums describing this exact issue – TurboTax 2015 instantly crashing on macOS 10.13.4 after registration. I figure since this is happening on two different Macs that I must not be the only person encountering this problem.
Copied the app over to a different Mac (because I already used my one allotted download), same thing. I launch it, it runs through the setup/registration process, and then boom – instantly crashes.
So I go through that BS and get the Mac app.
2015 turbotax for mac code#
After a few days, you'll receive an email with a link to the download and a one-time access code – that's right, if the download fails for any reason, you have to request a new link and wait all over again. But if you're on a Mac, you have to fill out a form to request a download link. If you're on Windows, you can just go to the website and find the download link for the version you need. Apparently there's no way to amend a return online – you have to download the software. I recently had to amend my 2015 tax returns, which were originally filed online.