Oh that makes more sense. Still, if GIMP had this kind of temp autosave you wouldn't have lost these files since you could've opened the .xcg of the relevant fi

Oh that makes more sense. Still, if GIMP had this kind of temp autosave you wouldn't have lost these files since you could've opened the .xcg of the relevant file and then export. Overall the best workflow with these applications is to always save the project file, in GIMP, Photoshop, or Affinity.