There is a file in the Galciv-folder in 'my documents' that keeps track of where in the campaign you are. Maybe you deleted that file by mistake?
I know for a fact that simply deleting all of the save-game files won't have any effect on the campaign, I have done it myself.

Sort your files by file type before deleting your saves next time--the campaign save file has the .campaignsav file extension, whereas sandbox games have the .sav extension.

Thanks for the symphaty

I have previously deleted files like this and never lost the campaing files. Iam positive that I did not delete them by accident. The save/load window had bunch of autosave files , couple campaing end game saves and couple others. Deleted those and "poof" the campaing was gone. Well as I said I was more suprised to sad by losing the campaing, maybe I´ll take Noumenon72 advice and play it again with CakeWalk.

Still one guestion lingers. Why do modern games tend to put stuff into the "my documents"? Seems to me bit stupid to have game files in two separate places or am I missing something?

Still one guestion lingers. Why do modern games tend to put stuff into the "my documents"? Seems to me bit stupid to have game files in two separate places or am I missing something?

I really would like to know that too.

Save games for the campaign are saved in the folder with the same name as the campaign.

You can load those from the Load Game window, and they will re-create the campaignsav file.

Definitely right on with the administrative control option - for those of us with multiple users on a machine there's also the fact that my saved games won't show up to be overwritten or deleted by another user who is playing on their login.

There's also the backup factor - many of us backup our My Docs folder often...our giant Games folders, not so much. I would love it if I could easily backup all my saved games from various programs without backing up the program files, but I hardly ever do because I don't want to wade through all of the individual games save folders one by one.

I think the main problem is that MS expected developers to adhere to their new model of folder management when they released the OS, and it hasn't happened that much. People probably wouldn't have these problems if *every* game saved into My Documents. We'd all be accustomed to managing that folder the way it was meant to. I'm happy Stardock at least is going this route.

Still one guestion lingers. Why do modern games tend to put stuff into the "my documents"? Seems to me bit stupid to have game files in two separate places or am I missing something?

Because that is where Microsoft wants you to put them. There are certain versions of XP that do not allow non-admin users to write anywhere but there.