I do not understand why you have ANY difficulties importing using the DOWLOAD version. For MANY years, turboTax HAS BEEN the DOWNLOAD version. The CD has been NOTHING MORE than a launcher for the downloader. Furthermore, as an experiment, I have PERSONALLY reinstalled EVERY download back to 2016 a week ago. EVERY download installed successfully. EVERY download SUCCESSFULLY IMPORTED from the previous year.
So, once again, your issue has NOTHING to do with "download," because it HAS been "download" since 2016 .
