Unsaved work lost without warning

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Relatively new to Affinity Designer (v1.8.3 on a Mac), but this "feature" has me concerned.  If I am editing one file and forget to save my edits, if I open another file from the "Open Recent" menu item, all edits are tossed without warning and the "Recent File" is opened.

After testing this repeatedly, I also found that this "deletion of edits without warning" also occurs if I create a New File without saving edits.  

I have never seen any software not warn a user that there are unsaved edits and I don't see any options in preferences to stop this "feature". 

Is there a way to ensure Affinity Designer will prompt me about unsaved edits before opening another file?

[BofG]

Opening another file opens it in a new tab. Your existing unsaved file will still be there.

When you close the application do you not get a prompt asking if you want to save changes to your unsaved document?

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I thought I had AD setup for multiple windows (separated mode)!  Somehow, I must have changed it back and was not looking for the tabs.

Still need to re-establish the habit of "save early, save often".

Thanks!!!!

[GarryP]

14 hours ago, priority said:

I have never seen any software not warn a user that there are unsaved edits

I’m fairly sure that Blender used to, by default, allow the user to close the application without any warnings being issued about unsaved edits.
It doesn’t do that in the latest version but I’m pretty sure it used to in earlier versions.