FTL doesn't save anything?

[oraculum]

None of my achievements are saved. None of my unlocked ships. You can't save a game or continue when you have to quit...

Are you seriously expected to spend hours at a time and have no way to continue? Is my install bugged somehow?

[5thHorseman]

There must be something wrong with your install. In a correctly running game you can save your current progress (though you can't save multiple backups) and each time you get an achievement you keep it through all plays.

[UltraMantis]

The game stores the profile and savegame in "C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\FasterThanLight" (Win7)
For some reason the game cannot access this folder so it cannot load the profile.

Do a computer-wide search for prof.sav. This is the profile file and it may be possible the game created a profile somewhere where it can't read it. Something went wrong during installation i guess, or your user account does not have permission to acces the /username folder.

Either copy the profile into your own user folder, or try to run FTL as administrator. Please report back if you solve the problem or still have issues.