Hi Utnik,
I couldn't find it, but I found other recovered files with the directory (if that is the right word), i.e. name_autosave_mm_dd_yyyy_hr_min.sla.
Knowing nothing about the inner workings of my computer, I still used Apple's Finder>Find and entered in finally just .sla. I'm pretty sure that brought up everything and I could see plenty of autosaves and recoveries over the years but nothing with my current file name except for that "file name.sla" itself where none of the day's pre-crash work was saved.
I have gone back into Preferences>Document Setup more than once to check Saving & Undo to see if autosave is activated. Here is what I have there:
checked- "Try to save "Emergency File" in case of a crash"
checked- "Enable automatic saving of documents" Interval: 10min. Number of files to keep: 1
selected- "Save into the same directory as the document" Not selected- "Save into" (blank)
Not checked- "Keep backup files after closing the document"
Not checked- "Show autosave countdown clock on the canvas"
I have checked (activated) the last two choices above.
Going to the document itself I can't see anywhere that the "countdown clock" appeared. I tried typing in a few characters into a text box and deleting them and leaving the document, nothing changed. I tried closing both the document and Scribus itself and re-opening both, still no clock, but I did get the crash report/recovery window that asked the same questions about documents already recovered.
In the meantime I think I'll manually hit the File>Save option with greater frequency now.
I did notice that the master pages character fonts and point sizes held, but in the document itself the text frame characters went haywire devolving back to Ariel and exaggerating the point sizes.
I'm not sure but I think autosave might be affected by whether there is a Signal 6 or Signal 11 crash, Signal 6 might save, but not Signal 11.
Thanks,