diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
index 0ad17cb..8978d23 100644
--- a/.idea/misc.xml
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project version="4">
   <component name="ExternalStorageConfigurationManager" enabled="true" />
   <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_17" default="true" project-jdk-name="jbr-17" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK">
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/pirouette/chibichat/MainActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/pirouette/chibichat/MainActivity.kt
index a0832f0..9658ded 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/pirouette/chibichat/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/pirouette/chibichat/MainActivity.kt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
         val stopTokenArray: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
         val subStringArray: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
         var msgData = ArrayList<Message>()
-        val savedStoryData = ArrayList<SavedData>()
+        var savedStoryData = ArrayList<SavedData>()
         var convArray = mutableListOf<String>()
 
 
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
         recyclerview.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)
         adapter = RvAdapter(msgData)
         recyclerview.adapter = adapter
+        savedStoryData = loadArrayFromFile(this)
         btnSend.setOnClickListener()
         {
             LoadData()
@@ -278,7 +279,6 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
             }
         } catch (e: Exception) {
             e.printStackTrace()
-            msgData.add(Message("System: " + e.toString(), 2))
             ArrayList()
         }
     }
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 9879da1..3b5eb03 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
 plugins {
-    id 'com.android.application' version '7.4.1' apply false
-    id 'com.android.library' version '7.4.1' apply false
+    id 'com.android.application' version '8.0.0' apply false
+    id 'com.android.library' version '8.0.0' apply false
     id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android' version '1.8.21' apply false
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 3c5031e..a2e90d8 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@ kotlin.code.style=official
 # Enables namespacing of each library's R class so that its R class includes only the
 # resources declared in the library itself and none from the library's dependencies,
 # thereby reducing the size of the R class for that library
-android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
\ No newline at end of file
+android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
+android.defaults.buildfeatures.buildconfig=true
+android.nonFinalResIds=false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index d4df6dd..e3484e8 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Wed May 31 18:53:53 AST 2023
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists