Autosave appears to NOT be working...

[redinhawaii]

I have crashed before, found that my layout files typically were fairly intact, could find them either in relaunch or in my hard drive, library, application support, layout files or in the folder that the original file was saved into...
but I had a crash this morning, and work that had been saved... from my perspective... from last night, and certainly should typically been AUTOSAVED... was no where to be found..
I had one untypical situation going on, I had my scrapbook "edit" open and was adding arch. symbols to it from current pages I was working on... i.e. a detail symbol that would be added to the scrap book and I could quickly grab it to add to a relevant view on another page as a reference. I was actively doing that with 6-8 pages open... crash... all of my previous work was lost... nothing found upon relaunch of "recent" files in layout, in the proper file location (typically where layout saves my "auto-save" files... or even "searching" in my library/application support/Layout/ auto save locations...
Lost was my work on the "edit" scrapbook, and hours of work on my actual layout pages...
I have followed Saunder's perspective and created a single file for each page (or series of similar pages, i.e. two pages of elevations)...
Does anyone have any idea where the "auto-save" files might be? (my auto save is on 5 min.), if this is a bug or is this what happens when you open up the scrapbook for editing?
thanks
aloha
red