lost work (skeleton)

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I checked and did not find my issue in the already reported ones

Describe the bug

i was editing and it glitched and closed once thought it was a connection problem. Then was working for another 45 mins and it kicked me out of the darkroom section and sent me back to the lighttable all of my work was displayed as skull heads and it said there was no image there when i tried to open it again.

Steps to reproduce

it kicked me out of the darkroom section and sent me back to the lightable
tole me there was no image

Expected behavior

not have skulls as my work

Logfile | Screenshot | Screencast

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Commit

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Where did you obtain darktable from?

darktable.org / GitHub release

darktable version

5.4.1

What OS are you using?

Windows

What is the version of your OS?

XPS 15 9570

Describe your system

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Are you using OpenCL GPU in darktable?

No

If yes, what is the GPU card and driver?

No response

Please provide additional context if applicable. You can attach files too, but might need to rename to .txt or .zip

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Start by reproducing the reported transition from darkroom to lighttable on Windows with darktable 5.4.1, checking whether edited work appears as skulls or reports no image. Gather the missing logfile, screenshots, system details, and reproduction steps; done means identifying a reproducible failure or documenting the evidence needed to investigate it.