HELP! All my progress lost due to crash

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Autosave file didn't automatically open after crash

Did you try to open the project you had previously saved? It does not automatically open what you last worked on. It only offers to restore the autosave for a saved project when you open the saved project. It only offers to restore an unsaved (Untitled) project upon startup. Also, it only autosaves every minute. Based on these parameters for how it works, I do not reproduce this. See also the docs

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…