Guys,
Whats the path to the savegame files?
Ty
C:\Users\<your name>\Documents\My Games\Farthest Frontier\Save
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Thanks!!
Just one more doubt: i started a new game after i was in year 170 on another map. I think the savefiles overrided the old savegame, because it doesnt show anymore.
Is it gone forever? 
It shouldn’t unless you named the new town the same as the old one.
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Are you actually saving the game using the Save command and naming it the name of the town? If you are just using the autosave alone, then yeah it’s gone. Also you shouldn’t just rely on the autosave because if you quit/crash it may be 10 mins of lost time too.
As you can see… you can have a lot of saved games, just have to give them unique names:
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Yeah i named them differently and i saved once the game manually. But it seems that the problem comes with the auto save. My first settlement disappeared completely and now i have only my current one with 2 auto saves.
Should i turn off the auto save and do that only manually ?
It has nothing to do with the autosaves. As you can see, I have dozens of different cities and autosave.
I just use the city name and year for save files.
Well, im scared now to start a new game.
When i started the new one map, i still got my old map normally saved on the loasing screen. And it wasnt an autosave file. After a couple hours playing on the new map, the old map just faded away and all i have now is the new one with 2 autosave files.
Where on your machine is your My Documents folder? OneDrive by any chance?
Yeah, i have onedrive and it has a path to savegame files in there. I checked it yesterday and even in there the save game file wasnt present.
I didnt check the local path though, the one mentioned by Jaradis.
Autosaves work by having two slots that the game will automatically generate a save for. If those two autosaves are already filled, the oldest autosave will be overwritten.
This will never affect manual saves, but if you manually save a town with the same name as an older save you will be prompted to overwrite the older save. You can just rename the new save something else instead.
If manually saved games are missing it has nothing to do with autosave.
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I would strongly advise either disabling OneDrive, or at least disabling it while playing any games that place their save files in the documents sub directories…
It has a very nasty habit of hijacking files WHILE games are actively writing to their save files. It doesn’t take a computer scientist to know that this is a bad thing to have happen while playing games.
This behavior is why I do not like OneDrive at all.
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OneDrive is fine, but for gamers whose games write to the Documents folder constantly, it is a bad idea to have OneDrive syncing it. I just make a shortcut to my OneDrive “Documents” folder, point Office to save to it, and leave the normal Documents folder alone, and it basically just has files related to my games in it.
Best of both worlds.
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Thats the point. And its intriguing now…
I didnt rename any file nor played the second map with the name of the first. And even so its gone. Disappeared.
I thought that you could only play with 3 save states: 1 manual and 2 autos. But now that ive found you can have dozens of manual savings…
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You may want to look in your OneDrive recycle bin, if the file ever made it up there, which it may not have if it was considered open and in use. There is a chance OneDrive considered it orphaned or the online OneDrive which didn’t have it, deleted the local version to get the syncs in order. Pretty much any number of different bad things can happen when you have OneDrive syncing open files. I had it corrupt numerous saves of mine in another game, which is why I adjusted it to not sync my game saves. Nevermind one games save files being over a gig each and chewing up my space!
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I havent checked that yet. Im gonna try.
Now, how do you deactivate that syncing? Because thats automatic with steam servers, right? Or that has nothing to do with it?
Nothing to do with Steam syncing, that only happens when you close games, and pretty sure this one doesn’t sync to Steam yet. In your OneDrive settings you can control what folders get synced or ignored, I would just turn off syncing for any game save folders you have in Documents at this point. Getting your documents folder out of OneDrive is a bit more than I want to get into here, and I don’t want to mess you up.
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Thanks for the information. Im gonna do that later on and see if i hopefully can find the missed savefile…
Man, i cant thank you enough! Found it in the recycle bin indeed. Its working great now. 
In fact, this was a Onedrive issue. I followed your advice: disabled the auto sync!
Once again, thank you sooo much 