Federal W-2 electronic file couldn’t be created

If you have ever been lucky enough to receive this error, it can be difficult to track down a solution. Fortunately, one solution is easy – an ‘additional information’ button would have been nice though.



In my world this error message is presented because the path indicated in the File Name field does not exist, or you do not have ‘write’ permission to it.



Some of the newer operating systems, like Windows 7, will not let you create files in what they deem to be ‘protected folders’. So what worked last year might not work this year.

Good luck with year-end!

Until next post!

Leslie