A client asked me to clean up and engrave some music that he wrote in another notation program. After doing a bunch of work I started to try fixing the frame / system breaks. Everything is mostly fine except for a few pages as pictured (randomly 2 systems instead of 3 per page). If I delete or alter any of the breaks, I end up with terrible issues, mostly hyper-condensed music. There is about 50 pages of system and frame breaks… I need help!
You have signposts showing in your first few pictures, but there are no signposts in your last picture. That suggests that you may have Layout Options > Staves and Systems > Casting Off > Fixed number of systems per frame set. If you untick that checkbox, those pages should clear up.
Alternatively, if for some reason you turned off signposts for the last image, and there actually are breaks at the tops of those pages, select the break, open the bottom Properties panel, and make sure that the “Wait for next break” property is turned off.
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Hi @agrimesmusic, adding to the excellent advices by @asherber, if you upload the Dorico Project here, we can give further suggestion about how to optimise the layout with the less possible amount of intervention, using the wonderful Dorico algorithms. So you can learn further, with the experience of other users (and you will make a very good impression to your client 
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Thanks you two!
“Fixed number of systems per frame set” was checked and set to 10 for some reason. After unchecking this I deleted all of the system and frame breaks that the client put in (for his other software) and manually set my own frame breaks.
Pretty easy fix actually!
**edit: My last picture was the behavior of Dorico after deleting all of the frame/system breaks.
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