Hello, is there a way to prevent Dorico from creating that folder “Flows from ProjectXY” when exporting audio? Or at least adjusting how it is named?
Can someone explain what extra information comes from the words “Flows from”? That seems quite redundant to me…
There is not much option for audio export presently, but the team has improvements planned regarding file and folder creation and naming.
Hello, I’d like to revive the topic to see if any new updates on the subject are available.
Thanks.
No, there haven’t been any changes in this area as yet.
Okay thanks Dan 
Hiya, just a quick / bump request for this. I’m currently working on a project with 40+ Flows and looking to export multiple versions of audio from each flow. It would be nice to be able to specify/have the option:
Cheers,
Owen
User moving over from Finale here. This extra Flow folder when exporting audio is a pain in the neck. I don’t want to have to go and move the audio back to my original folder and delete the Flow folder each time I export Audio. Please allow us to disable this option.
I’m not impressed that there were plans to improve this three years ago and nothing has been done since.
Please re-open and don’t say “solved” when it’s not.
+1, for both audio and PDF exports, I would prefer to simply have a normal system save dialogue window allowing me to organize and name exports how I want.
Another reason is for creating alt mixes for mockups, it’s much easier to simply rename the file at export rather than having to move/rename the other one first otherwise it will overwrite it.
Welcome to the forum and Dorico, @LorraineHM.
While I’m sorry to learn of your frustration as a new user (and btw, I agree that a better save workflow would (will…?) be great), I just want to mention that over the past three years there have been a large number of other very impressive improvements to the software.
While some things do sit on the Dorico team’s backlog of feature requests for longer than we’d hope, they definitely pour a lot of thought and energy into development. (Check out the version history going back to, say, v. 3.5. — I think you’ll feel reassured!)
Regarding the specific issue in the OP, the word “plans” was used by a fellow regular user/forum member, not by a Dorico team member. (You can distinguish them by the Steinberg icon in their avatar/photos.)
“Dorico Daniel” (@dspreadbury) and several other team members maintain a constant presence here in the forum, and make notes of what feature requests come in. (There’s even a feature-request tag to be used.) Daniel will often tell us that they “hope” or “plan” to develop something, but for obvious reasons won’t commit to a precise timeline for delivery. (He’ll also be frank in telling us when a feature is “unlikely” to be added.)
Just so you’re clear on the nature of forum posts: they are not official “help tickets” that get “opened” or “closed” by the Dorico team. The person starting the thread has the ability to mark any response as the 
Solution, which I suspect was done in this case simply because the next post answered the question (in the form of “no, not at present.”)
Please realize that this doesn’t mean the Dorico team thinks we longer want to see the feature improvement. They know…. 
Best wishes for your Dorico learning and experience.
+1, for both audio and PDF exports, I would prefer to simply have a normal system save dialogue window allowing me to organize and name exports how I want.
I think this nails it…
I just want to add to this topic: for almost all arrangements I’m making, I’ll provide audio exports per part. For instance in an SATB arrangement, I’ll make 5 audio files:
Right now my workflow is to export, rename the file in Finder so it won’t be overwritten, change the mixer, export again, rename the file in Finder so it won’t be overwritten, change the mixer, etc etc.
It would save me loads of time if a simple(? I must admit I know nothing about developing software haha) ‘save as’ button would be added.
My ideal world would be to have an option that would export the separate parts on 100% with every other instrument on 50%, but I can imagine that’s a bit delusional 
Here’s a (crazy?) thought…
Assuming each file is a single flow. Write your SATB flow. Duplicate it four times (and rename them Soprano, Alto etc.).
For each of these boost the dynamics (there’s a shortcut shift num+ for this) of the focal voice and reduce the dynamics of the others (shift num-). This takes just a couple of keystrokes.
Now you can export the audio and each flow will go to a separate file (and be named appropriately)
That’s a great suggestion. Will try this for the meantime, thank you!
Do you know if the shortcut can be accomplished without a numpad? Is there a way to replicate the num+ with another button?
