diff --git a/src/bridges/utils.ts b/src/bridges/utils.ts
index 9be7c91f..94f471db 100644
--- a/src/bridges/utils.ts
+++ b/src/bridges/utils.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
     TouchBarTexts,
     WindowStateListenerType,
 } from "../schema-types";
-import { CustomArgs } from "../general-types";
+import { type CustomArgs, type AutosaveNotifyResponse } from "../general-types";
 import { IObjectWithKey } from "@fluentui/react";
 
 const utilsBridge = {
@@ -64,6 +64,27 @@ const utilsBridge = {
         )) as string;
     },
 
+    autosaveBackupData: (writeContent: string): Promise<void> => {
+        return ipcRenderer.invoke("write-autosave", writeContent);
+    },
+
+    getLastAutosaveTimestamp: (): Promise<number | undefined> => {
+        return ipcRenderer.invoke("get-last-autosave-timestamp");
+    },
+
+    notifyOfRecoveryNeeded: (
+        title: string,
+        detail: string,
+        buttons: string[],
+    ): Promise<AutosaveNotifyResponse> => {
+        return ipcRenderer.invoke(
+            "notify-of-recovery-needed",
+            title,
+            detail,
+            buttons,
+        );
+    },
+
     getCacheSize: async (): Promise<number> => {
         return await ipcRenderer.invoke("get-cache");
     },
diff --git a/src/general-types.ts b/src/general-types.ts
index e02497da..e4b075a7 100644
--- a/src/general-types.ts
+++ b/src/general-types.ts
@@ -4,3 +4,8 @@ export type CustomArgs = {
     // Force using the window frame, regardless of platform.
     forceFrame: boolean;
 };
+
+export type AutosaveNotifyResponse =
+    | { response: "ignored" }
+    | { response: "deleted" }
+    | { response: "recovered"; contents: string };
diff --git a/src/index.tsx b/src/index.tsx
index 5175036e..337e73d3 100644
--- a/src/index.tsx
+++ b/src/index.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { initApp, openTextMenu } from "./scripts/models/app";
 import { startPool } from "./scripts/fetch-pool";
 import { rootStore } from "./scripts/reducer";
 import { initThemeUpdateListener } from "./scripts/settings";
+import { handleAutosaves } from "./scripts/autosave";
 
 startPool(); // Start global fetch pool.
 initThemeUpdateListener();
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ applyAnimationMotionPref();
 applyThemeSettings();
 initializeIcons("icons/");
 
+handleAutosaves();
 rootStore.dispatch(initApp());
 
 window.utils.addMainContextListener((pos, text) => {
diff --git a/src/main/pure-utils.ts b/src/main/pure-utils.ts
index 4cd81a71..aca20e3d 100644
--- a/src/main/pure-utils.ts
+++ b/src/main/pure-utils.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
+/**
+ * pure-utils.ts is a collection of utilities that are self-contained, and require
+ * no inter-package imports. None are stateful.
+ */
+
 /** Ensure we don't have too long of a message. */
 export function trimContent(
     s: string,
     charLen: number = 512,
-    lineLen: number = 5,
+    lineLen: number = 10,
 ): string {
     return limitLines(trimString(s, charLen), lineLen);
 }
diff --git a/src/main/utils.ts b/src/main/utils.ts
index f0878b1b..8628b528 100644
--- a/src/main/utils.ts
+++ b/src/main/utils.ts
@@ -7,13 +7,21 @@ import {
     clipboard,
     systemPreferences,
 } from "electron";
+import path from "path";
+import { getFonts } from "font-list";
+import { promises, writeFile } from "fs";
+
 import pkg from "../../package.json";
 import { WindowManager } from "./window";
 import { trimContent, trimString } from "./pure-utils";
-import { promises, writeFile } from "fs";
 import { ImageCallbackTypes, TouchBarTexts } from "../schema-types";
 import { initMainTouchBar } from "./touchbar";
-import { getFonts } from "font-list";
+import { type AutosaveNotifyResponse } from "../general-types";
+
+function getAutosavePath() {
+    const userDataPath = app.getPath("userData");
+    return path.join(userDataPath, "autosaves", "ffr_autosave.frdata");
+}
 
 export function setUtilsListeners(manager: WindowManager) {
     async function openExternal(url: string, background = false) {
@@ -159,6 +167,84 @@ export function setUtilsListeners(manager: WindowManager) {
         },
     );
 
+    ipcMain.handle("write-autosave", async (_, writeContent: string) => {
+        const autosavePath = getAutosavePath();
+        try {
+            const dirStat = await promises.stat(path.dirname(autosavePath), {
+                throwIfNoEntry: false,
+            });
+            if (dirStat == undefined) {
+                await promises.mkdir(path.dirname(autosavePath));
+            }
+            await promises.writeFile(getAutosavePath(), writeContent);
+        } catch (err: any) {
+            console.error("Failed to write autosave", err);
+        }
+    });
+
+    ipcMain.handle(
+        "get-last-autosave-timestamp",
+        async (): Promise<number | undefined> => {
+            const autosavePath = getAutosavePath();
+            try {
+                const result = await promises.stat(autosavePath, {
+                    throwIfNoEntry: false,
+                });
+                return result?.mtimeMs;
+            } catch (err: any) {
+                console.error(`Failed to stat ${autosavePath}`, err);
+                return undefined;
+            }
+        },
+    );
+
+    ipcMain.handle(
+        "notify-of-recovery-needed",
+        async (
+            _,
+            title: string,
+            detail: string,
+            buttons: string[],
+        ): Promise<AutosaveNotifyResponse> => {
+            if (manager.hasWindow()) {
+                const dialogResponse = await dialog.showMessageBox(
+                    manager.mainWindow,
+                    {
+                        type: "error",
+                        title: title,
+                        message: title,
+                        detail: detail,
+                        buttons: buttons,
+                        cancelId: 1,
+                        defaultId: 2,
+                    },
+                );
+                const autosavePath = getAutosavePath();
+                switch (dialogResponse.response) {
+                    case 0:
+                        await promises.rm(autosavePath);
+                        return { response: "deleted" };
+                    case 1:
+                        return { response: "ignored" };
+                    case 2:
+                        const contents = await promises.readFile(autosavePath, {
+                            encoding: "utf8",
+                        });
+                        return { response: "recovered", contents: contents };
+                    default:
+                        // Unreachable.
+                        throw Error("Unreachable");
+                }
+            } else {
+                dialog.showErrorBox(
+                    title,
+                    "Unable to recover automatically, but autosave exists.",
+                );
+                return { response: "ignored" };
+            }
+        },
+    );
+
     ipcMain.handle("get-cache", async () => {
         return await session.defaultSession.getCacheSize();
     });
diff --git a/src/scripts/autosave.tsx b/src/scripts/autosave.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d261d7c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/scripts/autosave.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/**
+ * Autosaves have somewhat complicated logic, because it would be really bad
+ * if we autosaved over a good save with a bad save. So, we have to put in
+ * some very reliable heuristics to figure out if we recently lost some data.
+ *
+ * This is the purpose of the `integrity` table in the IndexedDB database.
+ * Specifically, if we see we had an autosave available, yet the `integrity`
+ * is empty, it means that we wiped that table. Since that never happens in
+ * the renderer code paths, it's very likely there was a corruption and it
+ * was wiped silently by Electron on `IndexedDB.open`. We then can condition
+ * on that, and recommend recovery.
+ */
+
+import intl from "react-intl-universal";
+
+import { fluentDB, type ItemEntry, type SourceEntry } from "./db";
+import { loadFromConfig } from "./settings";
+
+const ONE_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+export enum AutosaveResponse {
+    SUCCESS = 0,
+    SKIPPED = 1,
+    INTEGRITY_FAILED = 2,
+}
+
+export async function handleAutosaves(): Promise<void> {
+    const autosaveResp = await renewAutosave();
+    if (autosaveResp === AutosaveResponse.INTEGRITY_FAILED) {
+        // Dangerous area! Everything in the DB is invalid!
+        const title = intl.get("autosave.corruption.title");
+        const detail = intl.get("autosave.corruption.detail");
+        const buttons = [
+            intl.get("autosave.corruption.delete"),
+            intl.get("close"),
+            intl.get("autosave.corruption.recover"),
+        ];
+        const response = await window.utils.notifyOfRecoveryNeeded(
+            title,
+            detail,
+            buttons,
+        );
+        if (response.response === "recovered") {
+            // Resets integrity table itself.
+            await loadFromConfig(JSON.parse(response.contents));
+        } else if (response.response === "deleted") {
+            fluentDB.integrity.put({ index: 0, timestamp: new Date() });
+        }
+    } else {
+        fluentDB.integrity.put({ index: 0, timestamp: new Date() });
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Renew the autosave file in userData if it's been long enough.
+ */
+async function renewAutosave(): Promise<AutosaveResponse> {
+    const autosaveMTimeMs = await window.utils.getLastAutosaveTimestamp();
+    const integrityVals = await fluentDB.integrity.toArray();
+    if (autosaveMTimeMs !== undefined && integrityVals.length === 0) {
+        console.error(
+            "Prior autosave exists, and current IndexedDB" +
+                " integrity check failed. Database is corrupt.",
+        );
+        return AutosaveResponse.INTEGRITY_FAILED;
+    }
+
+    const autosaveStartTime = Date.now();
+    if (autosaveStartTime < autosaveMTimeMs + ONE_DAY) {
+        console.debug("Autosave still current, not rewriting.");
+        return AutosaveResponse.SKIPPED;
+    }
+    let sources: SourceEntry[];
+    let items: ItemEntry[];
+    const transaction = fluentDB.transaction(
+        "r",
+        fluentDB.sources,
+        fluentDB.items,
+        async () => {
+            sources = await fluentDB.sources.toArray();
+            items = await fluentDB.items.toArray();
+        },
+    );
+    const output = window.settings.getAll();
+    await transaction;
+    output["database"] = {
+        sources: sources,
+        items: items,
+    };
+    await window.utils.autosaveBackupData(JSON.stringify(output));
+    const autosaveEndTime = Date.now();
+    console.debug(
+        "Completed autosave in " +
+            `${Math.round(autosaveEndTime - autosaveStartTime)}ms.`,
+    );
+    return AutosaveResponse.SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/src/scripts/db.ts b/src/scripts/db.ts
index a7ff3dcd..11301e78 100644
--- a/src/scripts/db.ts
+++ b/src/scripts/db.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ import { SourceRule } from "./models/rule";
 import { Dexie, type EntityTable, type Transaction } from "dexie";
 import type { ThumbnailAttributes } from "./thumb-utils";
 
+// Used to determine if the database has been initialised
+// or corrupted.
+export interface IntegrityEntry {
+    index: number;
+    timestamp: Date;
+}
+
 export interface SourceEntry {
     sid: number;
     url: string;
@@ -37,9 +44,11 @@ export interface ItemEntry {
 }
 
 export const fluentDB = new Dexie("MainDB") as Dexie & {
+    integrity: EntityTable<IntegrityEntry, "index">;
     sources: EntityTable<SourceEntry, "sid">;
     items: EntityTable<ItemEntry, "iid">;
 };
+
 fluentDB.version(4).stores({
     sources: `++sid, &url`,
     items: `++iid, source, date, serviceRef`,
@@ -77,6 +86,13 @@ fluentDB
     })
     .upgrade(migrateOpenTarget);
 
+// Introduce Database Integrity Validation Table.
+fluentDB.version(9).stores({
+    integrity: `++index`,
+    sources: `++sid, &url`,
+    items: `++iid, source, date, serviceRef`,
+});
+
 export async function calculateItemSize(): Promise<number> {
     await fluentDB.open();
     let result = 0;
@@ -294,7 +310,11 @@ function byteLength(str: string) {
 }
 
 export async function init() {
-    await migrateLovefieldSourcesDB("sourcesDB", 3);
+    try {
+        await migrateLovefieldSourcesDB("sourcesDB", 3);
+    } catch (e: any) {
+        console.error("Error migrating sources DB", e);
+    }
     try {
         await migrateLovefieldItemsDB("itemsDB", 1);
     } catch (e) {
diff --git a/src/scripts/i18n/en-US.json b/src/scripts/i18n/en-US.json
index dc1930ca..fc6a121c 100644
--- a/src/scripts/i18n/en-US.json
+++ b/src/scripts/i18n/en-US.json
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@
         "Vertical": "Vertical",
         "font": "Font"
     },
+    "autosave": {
+        "corruption": {
+            "title": "Database corruption detected",
+            "detail": "IndexedDB database appears to be corrupted, and an autosave file has been detected.\n\nRecover from autosave?",
+            "delete": "Delete autosave",
+            "recover": "Recover"
+        }
+    },
     "context": {
         "share": "Share",
         "read": "Read",
diff --git a/src/scripts/settings.ts b/src/scripts/settings.ts
index 7537dabf..8f029e88 100644
--- a/src/scripts/settings.ts
+++ b/src/scripts/settings.ts
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ export interface DatabaseConfig {
     globalRules: any[];
 }
 
+/** Interface to represent the current Fluentflame settings as serialised. */
 export interface FluentflameSettingConfig {
     version: string;
 
@@ -214,6 +215,13 @@ export interface FluentflameSettingConfig {
     viewConfig: ViewConfig;
 }
 
+/** Interface to represent the old Fluent Reader settings that are omitted. */
+interface FluentReaderMigrationEntries {
+    nedb?: any;
+    useNeDB?: any;
+    lovefield?: any;
+}
+
 export async function exportAll() {
     const filters = [{ name: intl.get("app.frData"), extensions: ["frdata"] }];
     const write = await window.utils.showSaveDialog(
@@ -235,9 +243,11 @@ function isFluentReaderExport(jsonObject: any) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Migrate Fluent Reader exports.
+ * Migrate Fluent Reader exports to Fluentflame Reader.
  */
-function migrateExport(input: any): FluentflameSettingConfig {
+function migrateExport(
+    input: FluentflameSettingConfig & FluentReaderMigrationEntries,
+): FluentflameSettingConfig {
     console.log("Identified an input from Fluent Reader, trying to migrate...");
     return {
         version: input.version, // This gets updated in update-scripts.
@@ -289,6 +299,9 @@ function migrateExport(input: any): FluentflameSettingConfig {
     };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Ask the user to load a configuration, then load it.
+ */
 export async function importAll(): Promise<boolean> {
     const filters = [{ name: intl.get("app.frData"), extensions: ["frdata"] }];
     let data = await window.utils.showOpenDialog(filters);
@@ -303,13 +316,25 @@ export async function importAll(): Promise<boolean> {
     );
     if (!confirmed) return true;
     let configs = JSON.parse(data);
+    return loadFromConfig(configs);
+}
 
+/**
+ * Load a configuration.
+ *
+ * @jsonObject: A configuration, either from Fluentflame or Fluent Reader.
+ */
+export async function loadFromConfig(
+    jsonObject: FluentflameSettingConfig & FluentReaderMigrationEntries,
+): Promise<boolean> {
     await db.fluentDB.sources.clear();
     await db.fluentDB.items.clear();
 
-    const newConfigs: FluentflameSettingConfig = isFluentReaderExport(configs)
-        ? migrateExport(configs)
-        : configs;
+    const newConfigs: FluentflameSettingConfig = isFluentReaderExport(
+        jsonObject,
+    )
+        ? migrateExport(jsonObject)
+        : (jsonObject as FluentflameSettingConfig);
     newConfigs.database.sources.forEach((s) => {
         s.lastFetched = new Date(s.lastFetched);
         if (!s.textDir) s.textDir = SourceTextDirection.LTR;
@@ -324,7 +349,13 @@ export async function importAll(): Promise<boolean> {
     });
 
     await db.fluentDB.items.bulkAdd(newConfigs.database.items);
+    // Ensure we actually update integrity entry.
+    const integrityPromise = db.fluentDB.integrity.put({
+        index: 0,
+        timestamp: new Date(),
+    });
     delete newConfigs.database;
     window.settings.setAll(newConfigs);
+    await integrityPromise;
     return false;
 }
diff --git a/tests/main/test_pure-utils.ts b/tests/main/test_pure-utils.ts
index b4117cf3..0080ec7b 100644
--- a/tests/main/test_pure-utils.ts
+++ b/tests/main/test_pure-utils.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ describe("dialog trimming", () => {
         expect(trimContent("M".repeat(1000))).to.equal("M".repeat(511) + "…");
     });
     it("trims too many lines", () => {
-        expect(trimContent("M\n".repeat(10))).to.equal(
+        expect(trimContent("M\n".repeat(15), 512, 5)).to.equal(
             "M\n".repeat(4) + "…more lines…",
         );
     });