I downloaded Dorico 6 using the Steinberg Download Assistant - all captions turned green and I scrolled down to the “Quit Steinberg Download Assistant”. Now, where is the icon to click to use the program and get started writing music? I can’t find anything and when I click on to several ‘help’ videos, the person moderating on the video seems to assume that you can find your way to start. Shouldn’t an Icon appear at the foot/bar of my computer (ie. like the big blue & green ‘F’ for FINALE)? Please assist. Thanks!
Telling you what you should see without knowing what operating system you are using is imperfect, since I know Windows 11 is different than my preferred Windows 10 computer; but I am pretty sure that on Macs and Windows 10 a brownish D icon (for Dorico) appears on the desktop unless one has (perhaps unintentionally) unchecked the option to place an icon on the desktop.
No icon will appear on the desktop on macOS, but you can find the Dorico 6 icon inside your Applications folder in the Finder, or you can use Spotlight (Command-Space) and type “dorico” to find and launch it. Once you’ve launched Dorico once, right-click its icon in the Dock and choose Show in Dock to keep it there.
On Windows, as @Derrek says, there will be an icon on the desktop, but you can also launch Dorico by hitting the Windows key and typing “dorico” to find it. Once it’s launched once, again, you can right-click its icon in the taskbar and choose to pin it there.
I’m using Windows 11, and the downloading has not worked X3. One window says I have successfully licensed my software, but when I click the icon, the software then says that it won’t open because there is no license found. So I go around and around re-downloading Dorico and re-licensing it, and trying to click the icon, but it will always say that it’s unlicensed, which annoying because everything worked like a charm under Windows 10.
For the downloading part use the Download Assistant. It will show in green colour, if your download and installation has been succesful.
For the licensing part: go onto the web and log into your Steinberg account. Look for your products (Dorico 6) and it will tell you to which computer you have licensed it. It should not make a difference, wether you run Windows 10 or 11 on that computer.
X3 means “times three”. I figured it out. I had to change a username in the Download Assistant and do a hard restart. Then everything was there. Thanks