If your system crashes, the file is saved automatically in the following situations:
If you selected Automatic Save in the Preferences dialog box, autosave files (whose filename contains .auto) are created at the specified interval. This file is deleted when you save and close a file.
If your system becomes unstable, FrameMaker tries to create a recover file (filename contains .recover) with your most recent changes.
An automatically saved copy of the file contains recent changes to the file.
Open the file you were working on last.
Do one of the following:
If a recover file exists, open it when prompted and check whether your latest changes are there. If they are, save the recover file with the same name as the document you were originally working on and then delete the recover file.
If no recover file exists, open the autosave file when prompted and save it with the same name as the document you were originally working on. The autosave file contains all the changes you made until the time of the last automatic save. The amount of work lost depends on the time interval you set between saves and when your system crashed.