Object mode off, Paint is set to normal, Yet the line still disappears when drawing?

[AmandaChewy]

Hello everyone, 

I am a character animator currently struggling with animate (2D, Symbols). To start, I will say this is the newest update of animate. 

I was hoping someone here might be able to help out with this trechorous issue since I can't really find anything on google exactly like this weird encounter. 

I am inside of a symbol trying to create a new hand symbol and it worked hours ago but ALL of a sudden, now it is deciding to dissapear or when I connect the lines fill (as if it is set to "paint fills" and "object mode") the werid part is object mode is off and it is set to "normal" so I am unsure of what is happening. 

Here is a screenshot of my issue:

and a photo of my properties panel:

Thanks in advance for any help.

[AmandaChewy]

++ I would also like to add that when I leave the hand symbol or open a new FLA the brush tool works perfectly fine. This is only an issue within the hand symbol.

[n. tilcheff]

Best approach, in my opinion, would be to try to just salvage what is salvageable from that symbol and move on without trying to find out what is causing the shape corruption. (Animate is a mess.)

If up to this point all has worked fine with the symbol, leave it as it is.

Create a new hand symbol; copy/paste what you can from the existing one and keep going with your work.

I'd do all this in a separate FLA.

Also: very important.

Save versions of your file, that you can easily go back to, because this might be a sign of data corruption in progress.

Make sure you have backups.

[AmandaChewy]

ah! Thank you, I was looking for a clear answer and you've delivered. I didn't think of making a new symbol and taking the others / putting it into it. I'll have to give that a shot. 

I have over 50 versions (I save every few minutes because I've been wronged by animate too many times haha) So I will try going back to see if it works in later versions too. Thanks for your help!

Cheers!