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[Eschar]

    I had two DF windows, one with the now-possibly-deleted fortress and one with my adventurer in another world. I save the Fortress window (without closing it), and go to save the Adventurer, whereupon Micro$oft Windows gives me a dialog claiming that "Dwarf Fortress has stopped working." No problem, I thought. If it didn't save, I can just redo what I did already (namely, get more than two companions and then singlehandedly and silently slaughter a kobold camp.)

    So I started DF the next day, ready to finally build a screw pump in that fortress, and find I have two adventure saves. One is at the bottom, and it's contents are as if I hadn't saved the other day (which Windows probably hadn't.) The other contains all my progress in Adventurer that I did want to save. The problem is, it's in place of my fortress.

    I'm hoping that only the name of the fortress save (and it's world)have been overwritten, although that will mean I have to redo the Adventurer.
Failing that, is there some way to get it back?

[Fleeting Frames]

If you don't have the folder for fort in your data/save directory, don't think there's anything you can do.

[Eschar]

If you don't have the folder for fort in your data/save directory, don't think there's anything you can do.

Both saves were called region1, even though the Adventurer game had been in region3.

[Fleeting Frames]

Rename one of the region1s to region4?

[Eschar]

Rename one of the region1s to region4?

Actually, there is only one region1, so I think Nishnelas was overwritten...

[bluephoenix]

Yeah if there is only one save, it has definitely been overwritten. In the future I would suggest either turning on the autosave feature or do manual backups to an external drive every half an hour or hour.

[PatrikLundell]

For the future I'd recommend one install for each DF copy you intend to run concurrently. I believe the "current" folder becomes a contested resource otherwise (and it might be there things went wrong in this case).

[mikekchar]

Yeah, If I run DF twice at the same time, I almost always get crashes.

[Fleeting Frames]

I don't, but I always exit the second one by killing the process.

[Quietust]

For the future I'd recommend one install for each DF copy you intend to run concurrently. I believe the "current" folder becomes a contested resource otherwise (and it might be there things went wrong in this case).

This - if you run two instances of Dwarf Fortress from the same directory, you will irreversibly corrupt your worlds once you save them. Since they both use the same "current" folder for staging updated unit/art_image/etc. data files, the most likely symptom will be random "Nemesis Unit Load Failed" failures from both worlds - one will be due to outright missing files, and the other will be due to existing files containing the wrong units (potentially being linked to nonexistent historical figures, a source for plenty of other crashes).

[lethosor]

I don't, but I always exit the second one by killing the process.

Right. As long as you don't save, you shouldn't get crashes (although as Quietust pointed out, saving even one of the two worlds could corrupt it).