I was not aware of the auto save file, but there wasn't one in the directory. The application died -instantly- while I was using the spell checker in the story editor.
Ok, I'll chalk this up to my failure to do a save before I did the spell check.
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I assumed he wasn't aware of the auto save. So, no, Scribus doesn't make a backup file on exit, but it does frequent auto saves as you edit so you have something to fall back on. By default the save is in same directory, haven't looked to see if this can be changed in preferences.
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