Bruh, put a auto save function

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It does have this for crash recovery (it works most of the time for most people not only for me but as commented by others). See the “Autosave” section in this documentation:

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put a…

Then, there is File > Backup and Save you can do manually. Finally, the latest version 24.01 adds automatic backup that defaults to daily but you can change it to hourly in Settings > Backup.