So you’ve been working on scripts in SSMS v17.x and suddenly it freezes and won’t let you interact with it at all.
No fear, when you close (kill) the SSMS process using Task Manager and reopen it you should be prompted to recover your files. The caveat being that you haven’t disabled Save AutoRecover in the Tools – Options menu item.
However, if you’d rather not take the risk of not being prompted and as per the previous screenshot, you should hopefully be able to find your scripts under your Documents\Visual Studio 2015 folder.
