That's happened to me and always confused me, you save the last iteration, crash, and then can't load the last iteration you saved? Why is this, surely when you 'save' then this file is completely separate from the file/scene your now working with until you save again no? Cheers for your script Rob.
Here you go: http://tech-artists.org/hg/tao_official/tao_tools/file/tip/autobak.ms (right click and do a save link as to save the file) Needs Max9 or higher. It should tell you what you need to know when you run the script. It'll need to be evaluated whenever you start Max (it isn't a macro), so stick it into…