ProSeries Basic - Stopped working - Will not open

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January 17, 2021
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I have opened and worked in my ProSeries for tax year 2020 for almost a month. I was in the application yesterday. All of a sudden today, it will not open (don't even get a sign on screen). I even tried re-installing the application from my CD. After it said the install was complete, when I clicked on the "Launch ProSerice Now" button, nothing. No sign on, nothing. I can go back and run my ProSeries Basic for 2019 but nothing now for 2020.

Thoughts/Ideas.

Danny

ProSeries Basic

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Orlando11

Level 8

Can you go into your installation directory, navigate into /32bit, and see if the following two files are there:

Note the .config and/or .exe extensions might be hidden.

If the protax20.exe is not there.. do you have any anti-virus software like AVG Internet Security? I was helping someone else today - turned out it randomly decided to quarantine our protax20.exe... so all of a sudden it was gone from his system and nothing worked. He had to go in there and whitelist.

If the file is there, can you go into the /32bit/logs directory and email proseries.txt to proseries_engineering@intuit.com? That might have detail.

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Orlando11

Level 8

Just posting history / follow up sake + to get additional cases if others are running into this.

From the [installationDirectory]/common/UpdateLog.txt file we're seeing that some files are failing to get updated, because the system is unable to rename them.

[Sat Jan 16 22:04:11 2021] ### adc support Failed - Error(22) - patch:C:\BasWin20\Updates\wadcdlls-200-5000020.rtp - File: 32bit\TourPresenterSL.dll - ProSeries Basic Edition Update - Failure Renaming File

[Sun Jan 17 11:55:10 2021] ### basic 1040 individual Failed - Error(22) - patch:C:\BasWin20\Updates\wfbipro-200-201794.rtp - File: forms\1040_20\fdixml.1pe - ProSeries Basic Edition Update - Failure Renaming File

We haven't figured out why this is happening yet. If anyone else runs into this issue, please reply here so we can start gathering data to see if we can find a common root cause. My guess is some sort of issue with backup, anti-virus, or anti-malware software... or that something on the system is modifying these files, and the update won't overwrite them.

The workaround:

Rename any file that's getting an Error(22)
Go to the start menu, and choose ProSeries 2020 -> Tools Repair Updates

If you don't want to deal with renaming/looking at the log file, you can try to just restart your machine and then choose Tools Repair Updates or of course call into Customer Support.

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gammoncsAuthor

Level 4

This is a strange issue that was encountered but it is also a rare occurrence. It apparently is caused by a "faulty" update but the specifics are still being explored. The Intuit support on my issue was excellent and did not stop until I had a resolution. You can take this reply as an acceptance of the solution for my issue. Thanks again Orlando.

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