Crashes with no recovery

For the last  few months Photopaint  has been crashing on me (usually at the most inopportune moment of course).

Now I'm sure there used to be some sort of recovery system, but I'm seeing nothing of the sort here... the app just closes completely and when I reopen it, all open drawings have closed and I just have the Photopaint main screen waiting for me to open a file.

Am I remembering it wrong? Shouldn't there be some sort of crash recovery process???

P.S. I know I should have Autosave turned on, but I do not want to "save to file" and overwrite my original file, and according to the manual "save to checkpoint" gets lost when the program is closed (and presumably when it crashes too!)