I was using inkscape for the first time today and the software crashed. it said that it had saved it to a location before it closed down the application. I clicked out of it before I realized I didn't read what location it saved to.

Maybe this: https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/where-is-auto-save-in-12/

On Windows 11, Inkscape emergency save location is %homepath%

You can find this in preference:

Open Inkscape then do: Edit>Preferences>Input/Output(Click arrow to drop down)>Autosave

Copy the Autosave directory and paste into your file address bar hit enter and tada!