selecting client files to copy/backup

[kattsmeow17]

I need to amend a 2019 1040 that I e-filed using ProSeries Basic.  I want to be able to e-file the 1040X.  The instructions say to backup the client file first.  It says in HomeBase, select the client file(s) you want to backup, then File/Client File Maintenance/(Copy/Backup).  The Copy/Backup box comes up, but a different file than the one I want to backup is not the one that shows in the box, and it will not allow me to change the file.  suggestions?

[IRonMaN]

Print a paper or pdf copy of the return for your records and don't bother with the copying route --------- I never have.  As a side note, e-filing is shutdown until they open back up in January.

[kattsmeow17]

Are you saying that you then turn the original file into the amended file?

[IRonMaN]

Yup.  As long as you have a copy of the original in some shape or form, there really isn't a reason to mess around making a copy of the client file.

[Just-Lisa-Now- · Accepted solution]

This is what I do as well, use the original file (with the filename you want to keep using and transferring each year) as the amended return.

I don't save an actual "tax file" of the original return, its wrong, so I have no reason to save it in the program like that.

[kattsmeow17]

thanks.

[kattsmeow17]

thanks