@jessantom Hi, sorry to hear about this. First of all a few questions:
- Which version of Pencil2d are you using? (go to Help > About in the software)
- What OS? (Windows X, MacOSX , Linux) ?
- What were you doing when Pencil2D shut down, did you notice anything abnormal?
Note: The Pencil2D team will be working in a project backup feature, but please notice that if you don’t save at least ONCE, the autosave feature cannot kick in and thus it’s impossible for there to be any kind of recovery.
Either way please read and follow this guide to prevent work loss due to file corruption and read on the “partial recovery” part which might help you retrieve something on your OS temp folder. Although if you never saved, it might not work, but you can try out at least.
Edit: This is the guide link Pencil2D Project File Corruption Prevention / Partial Recovery Guide
Lastly, please, enable the autosave functionality on the preferences: Got to Edit > Preferences > Files > [x] Enable Autosave. As for the # of modifications put a rather high number like 100 (max 200), that will mean that every 100 changes to the canvas (drawing, erasing, filling, transforming a selection) Pencil2D will keep track of that and save itself, but you need to save at least ONCE for this to work.