I hate that so much. D;
You can try changing the name by putting .sai at the end of the file to see if that works.

Sai doesn't have auto-save??

This is a big reason I avoided Sai like the plague and got Clip Studio instead.

I HAAAAATE that SO MUCH. I'm currently restarting my art computer because Krita keeps locking up :\

Door2Windows Auto-save *thumbs up*

A friend of mine made an autosave program for programs that don't have an autosave or backup feature. Might be worth a look.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5653063/

Yeah, I tried that too. :/ my tmp file was corrupted just like the .sai file

Shitty

I'm sorry. Would a video or two of AMUSING glitches help to take your mind off it?

*sends lots of hugs and face kisses to calm her down*

And this is why I was asked to recompile a SAI Auto-saving script in a couple different time versions. There's a five and a fifteen minute version there. Doesn't require Java.

Won't fix what's happened, but might help mitigate shit like that in the future.

This sounds really useful. Does it save the file using an alternate file name or does it save the current file only? I've had the same issue here as kittydee( sorry to hear 'bout the file corruption) where it flat out corrupts the work file which is why I am forced to save redundantly between two alternate files... if I can remember to.

Sadly, it only does the equivalent of pressing ctrl-s, so it saves the current file.

Though, I'm kind of pondering if there would be a simple, programmatic way of automatically backing up a file, based on a folder. Off the top of my head, the easiest already existing way to do that is to make sure your save destination is always in a Dropbox maintained folder. Dropbox maintains revisions of files that you can access from their web interface by right-clicking on the file and choosing Previous Versions.
It looks like Dropbox also has a fairly forgiving history, too - I just checked one of my files I've been editing over the last day, and I have seven revisions I can roll back through, and I am on a free account.

Yeah, exactly what Tsamp says. I had been saving my work which honestly took a big of getting used to since I used to live on the edge lol. But whenever sai fails to save, the whole save file is corrupted. And before I could save it as a new file, the program crashed

Just thought about this while writing the other reply.

By any chance, are you on Windows 7?
The one really good thing about 7 that didn't make it to 8 is the previous versions feature.
You can usually right-click on an empty space in a folder, choose Properties, and there should be a Previous Versions tab there. It'll let you check a previous iteration of a folder's contents, just in case something corrupts the most recent save.

It's not a miracle worker, but it is a neat idea that might also help.

Hmm.. I tried it, but nothing came up in the search. It's alright, I really appreciate your help. My computer's been restarted so the tmp file is gone too

It's fine! I'll just redo it