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[Christian_R]

@john_stubbs

Can I assume you are on the Dorico Team? I would be glad to share my file. It’s big! and can I assume it will be safe to share it?

Hi @john_stubbs, I am not part of the Dorico Team, I am a normal user like you.

I would love to see your Dorico project to give my suggestions. If it is bigger then 4MB, you can upload it on some cloud service as Dropbox or Google Drive and post here the link, or send me it as a private message. But if you post the link here it would be better because so other people can make suggestions as well. And the Team sees it too (but we want to save them some time, trying to answer some of the requests ourselves, so they can concentrate on developing amazing new features )

If you’re worried about copyright (I newer see a case of copyright infringement in this Forum) you can select the music and apply the pitch transformations that you find on the menu Write>Transform, so your music is not recognisable.
If you want to make a cutdown version of your project here a useful post:

@dspreadbury

4. Post a project, not a picture
If you are having a problem with Dorico, the fastest way to get the help you need is to post the project, or a part of it, and not to post a screenshot. If you post a picture, you will almost certainly find that the first person to respond to your thread asks you to post the project. You may be concerned that the musical content of your project will be judged, or stolen. While we cannot guarantee that this will not happen, because of the supportive nature of the forum, this is vanishingly unlikely. There may be copyright or confidentiality restrictions that prevent you from posting the whole project. That’s fine! It’s always better in any case to cut the project down to a smaller size to attach it, particularly because there is a 4MB file size limit on attachments.

To cut down your project, first do File > Save As to save your project under a new name, to avoid making unwanted changes to your working project. If the project contains multiple flows, delete all flows except for the one that exhibits the problem. If the project contains multiple players, delete all players except for the one that exhibits the problem. If the problem is isolated to a particular bar or passage, then use the Shift+B popover to remove all other bars (e.g. select a note or rest in the bar after the problem passage, type Shift+B and enter a huge negative number like -9999 to delete all of the remaining bars in the flow).

Once you have cut down the project to the minimum scope that reproduces the problem, in Play mode choose Play > Playback Template and reapply the default playback template, or choose Silence. This dramatically reduces the file size of the project after you have deleted most of its musical material, because it removes the saved audio engine state.

Finally, attach the Dorico project it to your post.

If you want to add a picture as well (perhaps annotated to show where the problem exists), then by all means do so. But if your problem relates to a specific situation you’re experiencing in your project, you are guaranteed to get a more helpful answer more quickly when you include a suitable project file to reproduce the problem.