I think I may have sent myself into a black hole on this. I decided to take Intuit's suggestion and attempted to convert from QBDT to QBO. After signing up for QBO, I quickly found out I would have to wipe all my payroll data from QBO Payroll Core and re-enter every piece of information into my new QBO company account (Tell me THAT's not crazy!) So I bailed, and decided to stay with the current version of QBDT (2022).
But apparently, even though I cancelled my QBO company file and deleted all the data, QBO still thinks I'm operating online, and won't even show me an "Export" option anymore on my paycheck lists or tax files. When I go to the Payroll Settings page it won't even give me the option of setting up exporting data to QBDT.
Is there a way to fix this? Because if I can't, there's no reason to stay with QBO Payroll at all.
