Wait, what do you mean the save isn't there at all?
At some point there was a region folder in data/save that got created when you generated your world.
Is that gone completely? If you go to start a new fort, does that world show up in the list?
Because if the whole world just vanished, something is going on that's way weirder than just "oh you forcibly quit the game and it didn't save"; that shouldn't be haphazardly deleting entire directories.
Agreed. The problem as described makes no sense! Although re-reading the comment on autosaves, I may have misunderstood the post. In fact, I only commented on the part that seemed intelligible and somewhat less self-contradictory. To explain, these statements confuse me even now:
"Prior to this I had had it do autosaves with autobackups, but I turned that off because I felt like it was cluttering up with too many folders."
"Only now there's no savegame at all. It was an autosave that I quit after, so...I don't get it. What happened to it?"
I have never heard of this happening. And the syntax makes it very unclear to me exactly what is meant, especially when considering this statement:
"But the thing is, I quit the program right after the auto-save. Now, does that delete the auto-save? Or what? By what you say, it sounds as if I should be able to load via the autosave, but I don't see it anywhere."
So... what? And then this...
"That's how I quit, after the autosave, was by using the Task manager to close the game. (Since the last time I tried saving and quitting normally, it never actually saved.)"
I have never even heard of that problem. So, you turned off autosaves, loaded an autosave, then it somehow autosaved while the autosave function was off, then you terminated it with Task Manager? And now you want to know where the save is, although according to you no main save file existed in the first place (if you are referring to the same game in the last statement)?
Until you can state what actually happened in a coherent way and without directly contradicting yourself, it will be impossible for anyone to really help you. My post was a little abrasive, but I was only trying to answer the only statement which seemed to make sense: you closed the program forcefully and wanted to know why Autosave didn't have your back. However since you say you have it off
and say you have it on, it's impossible to know what on earth you really mean.