Hands-On Report--Fixes for Problems with 1/9 TurboTax 2005 for Mac OS X Updaters

Two Macs Only! staffers tried updating their copy of TurboTax 2005 Deluxe with State for the Mac using the One-Click Updates selection under the Online menu and got an error dialog (11002:2, -14) during installation of at least one of the five updates. They fixed the problem by installing the 1/9 updates manually but in two different ways as follows:

1. One downloaded all five of the 1/9 updaters and applied all five manually by clicking on the updaters that have a .exe file extension as we have previously noted. He had to delete the ".exe" extension on each file because it kept launching Real Player instead of running. When he finished all five updates, he tried the One-Click Updates command again and a dialog box stated that his TurboTax was up to date. And,

2. The other noted that only one of five updates did not install, mfdiper.exe. So he just downloaded it and ran it without deleting the ".exe" extension. It ran fine and appeared to install. When he tried the One-Click Updates command, however, it again downloaded mfdiper.exe and ran it again--this time it installed automatically without the error message. Trying the One-Click Updates command again, the dialog box stated that his TurboTax was now up to date.

The five 1/9/06 updaters are available for download and manual installation from this Intuit Web page. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox]