PPSSPP SAVING PROBLEM! PLZ HELP

[madarahd]

ok so i downloaded ppsspp version0.9.1-357-g3525498. and i downloaded the cso file for kingdom hearts birth by sleep and managed to play tht game in hd with no lag at all. so i finally decided to save and quit. later i got back on ppsspp by opening up the file in the winwar folder. and kingdom hearts birth by sleep was not in my recent games. and when i load up kingdom hearts it said there were no save states and no saved data found. so im like DANG! and then i looked at the ppsspp folder and went to memstick<psp<ppsspp state and their aint nothing there.. the folder is empty and the save data foldeer aswell. so i ended up having to play through the beggining again and get to the part where i left off from. but i forgot to mention before i opened ppsspp that time i saved it to my taskbar. so whenever i wanted to play i just clicked that. and my data was always there. but recently it said that something in ppsspp was removed so the shortcut was removed from the taskbar aswell. (IDK What????))))

I have windows 8 (which is shitty as hell) and i know there may be compatibility problems because of that. but i wasnt expecting it to delete my damn data. could this be my firewall, or something else????
also everytime i load up it says something about windows smartscreen is blocking some things from the ppsspp program(which i dont know how to get too) but imma figure out tonight!
plz reply someone i really wanna get this fixed because i was doing a playthrough for this game on my youtube channel and i dont want to start over for shit.