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It would be useful if TextPad kept a list of open files on a permanent storage (e.g. the registry or some kind of data file in it's folder), so that in the event of a program/sytems crash TextPad could be able to ask if it should re-open those files it had open the last time it ran.

For me this would be very useful since I use TextPad for viewing data-files for applications while I'm developing them. This often leads to lot of sharing errors and quite often this leads to TextPad crashing.

In a perfect world TextPad shouldn't crash, but since it's hard to write totally bug-free code a better approach is IMHO to make those bugs effect to overall experience as little as possible.

Well, I must be in a perfect world, TP simply does not crash on me. I've done torture tests, edit large files and opening workspaces with hundreds and hundreds of them and so on, and I'll admit that in those extremes I've had problems with it

You might want to take a look at TP's help file, it's quite good. There you will learn to instruct TP to re-open the files you were last working on on next startup. There you will also find info on how to open locked files as read only, which might come in handy on your system as other applications are writing to many of your open files. Should that not help I would reccomend a special log viewer, there are a few about and some free. I hope that helps.

s_reynisson, you are not alone - the only time I can remember that Textpad did terminate without being instructed to do so was when a digger in the street cut off the power line to the office building ...

For the problem: workspace sounds like a solution, but then these are afaik only saved when either instructed to do so (File - Workspace - Save [as]) or when another workspace is loaded or when TextPad is closed normally.
So there seems to be no automatic solution ...