Slew of bugs (similar to failed to download script thread)

Question

This is a bug report listing all the problems I’ve encountered with Story and what I was doing when they occurred:
I logged into Adobe Story using the AIR application in online mode.
I attempted to open a script, which was originally imported from Movie Magic Screen Writer vs. 6 and had been edited several times in Story prior to this error with no problems. It has also been shared but only for review.
I received an error reporting that the script was unable to be downloaded.
I opened another script and worked on it with no errors.
I tried to open the original script again.
It opened.
Upon first scrolling of the script I received an error that Adobe Story encountered a fatal error and would have to be shut down. (Sorry I did not keep the detailed report)
Upon restart I attempted to open the script again, in online mode.
Script opens but there is no text.
I set Adobe AIR to offline mode and open script.
Script opens with text, but formatting is screwy with seemingly random spaces removed. Reads like this:
A man uses abetaversion of a program. He expereinceserrors with the program.
This is consistent every time I open this particular script: in online mode nothing is there, in offline mode formatting is a mess.
I have one other script in Story and it doesn’t seem to have these issues, however, I was looking for where Story stores offline scripts on my computer for backup purposes due to the above error and was surprised to find no files in the “Adobe Story” folder under “Documents”. I also found no option to select a location to save files to in Story. For backup of critical work this is a required feature. I have to be able to control where my material is stored and do so locally so that if there are fatal errors like above I can recover from a known good locally saved file.
This concerned me so I attempted to export to Movie Magic Screen Writer. I was alarmed to find no export to SCW option after having imported from it (I think a claim of 3rd party interoperability is pretty absurd if Story can’t export to this popular program). I exported as .txt to try and preserve a backup of work done in Story. This .txt file opens using the Notepad application and is formatted correctly there, but fails to import properly into Movie Magic (no text in script at all).
I perform a select all and copy in Story of the script.
I perform a paste in Movie Magic.
Formatting of text is messy in Movie Magic similar to the above problem.
Upon immediate return to Story, formatting of this script is also messy and matches exactly the formatting in Movie Magic. Only a select all and copy have been performed on this script. This error is consistent and hapens every time. I have a duplicate copy of this script in its original form in Story. I did a Save AS to create a new script that I used for the above testing and resulting erorrs.
I hope that you can resolve these issues, but I will only be using the program for sharing capabilities until final release from now on, except to test solutions to this problem if you have them. While I understand this is a beta version, a bug this critical that renders the application useless without a clear means of recoverable locally stored backup ensure that the program is not worth using for editing at this stage.

Answer 1

Update 2:
Thought I found work around, made the problem worse in the end but it still might be useful to some:
Placed AIR app in offline mode, told Story to “Lock Script”.
Opened script in offline mode, text garbled.
While still in the script (authoring or editing mode or whatever) placed AIR app into online mode.
Told Story not to unlock script when prompted.
After a quick load, script appears properly text is no longer garbled.
Export as .txt file.
Export completes buts Story encounters fatal error and has to restart. Detailed report of error:
<ErrorReport date="Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:43 GMT">
  <session clientVersion="" userName="null" userID="null" sessionID="null" lastSentSequence="0"/>
  <documentMeta documentID="null" userRole="owner" documentVersion="0"/>
  <error message="RangeError: Error #2006">null</error>
  <command name="vu.editor.controllers.document::CmdSave" phase="commandEnd"/>
  <platform version="WIN 10,0,32,18" playerType="Desktop" os="Windows Vista" isDebugger="false"/>
  <trace></trace>
</ErrorReport>
.txt file is good, backup successful for use in other programs, so I continue to try and force Story to work.
Upon restart original errors persist.
Try above workaround this time saying “No” when prompted to lock scripts when going offline. Workaround is successful again.
Make a test edit of script in online mode.
Use standard “Save” command (not save as)
Close Script, try to reopen receive “Unable to download error”.
Attempt workaround and still receive error in offline mode.
Close and reopen AIR app.
When I place AIR offline and say “Yes” to the lock script prompt I receive the “unable to download” error even though the mode is offline.
When I say “no” script opens with no text or outline and I am not able to type anything, it is all just grey.
Checked the browser app, still receive unable to download error.
That will be all the debugging I’m doing. I was able to recover good versions of both scripts edited in Story using these methods, so I post them for others who may need help. I will however now be going back to Screen Writer.