I have already discovered the autosave feature (too late obviously), but I didn't know about the newer version of Inkscape, thank you @Moini @Lazur I didn't have much hope for the first file :( I attempted to open the second file in Notepad++ but I don't know code and didn't know what I was looking ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnl902co3pj1u ... l.svg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l63c0rrw3o521 ... d.svg?dl=0
These are the two links from Dropbox to the two files. Hopefully they aren't completely tarnished

I received an error "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will now close" and didn't think anything of it, but then it happened again later, and also while I was out of the room my computer restarted to install updates. Now two of the .svg files that I had open aren't working. The fi...