If you used the Desktop program the returns are only saved and stored on your computer and any backups you made. Turbo Tax does not save a backup online. Are you on Windows or Mac.
When you go up to File-Open doesn't your return show up in the box?
Your tax return file ends in .tax2019, .tax2020, .tax2021 etc. Search your computer for it. Check the Recycle Bin or Trash. Check in One Drive, etc. it should be in your Documents then in the Turbo Tax folder. Check your backups. Also if you have multiple Windows user accounts, log into each one and do the search for the *.tax2021 data file from within each one and checking the Recycle Bin in each one.
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.
How to show the file extension in Windows
https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions/
See this post (scroll down) he found his files in the Administrator account
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/all-my-turbo-tax-information-is-missing-where-did...
Don't know if this will help any Turbo Tax users but one Quicken user found them......
What I found was that my Quicken Data files ended up in the One-drive Recycle bin. Not sure how, but I found them there. I placed the files back onto the laptop and brought the files into Quicken and now have all my data back.
