Here's another idea. If you get the 2021 program installed see if you can transfer from 2020 into a new 2021 return. Maybe try to recreate your 2021 return or not. Then save it, go up to FILE-SAVE. That will give you a .tax2021 file you can transfer into 2022. That might get you more than transferring a pdf file like get some carryovers, etc.
You're on Windows, right? You don't have any files ending in .tax or .tax2019 or .tax2020 etc? How did you remove or delete all the Turbo Tax files? Maybe it left the tilde ~ files? If you don't have the main .tax file you might have one that starts with a Tilde sign ~ like "~your name.tax2021". That file is if your computer crashes or your real file gets lost or deleted or corrupt so you can restore it.
The ~ is a tilde file. Those are temporary files that you normally don't see and normally are deleted. But now Turbo Tax is leaving them in the folder in case something happens like if your file gets corrupted or lost or your computer crashes. Then you can go back. If you can't transfer from the regular file you can transfer from the ~ file.
Find your Tax file in Windows
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-data-file/help/find-your-tax-data-file-tax-file-in-windows/00/...
