Your files

Reflow opens on the list of your scores. It is the same browser as Apple’s Files app, so a score shows where Files shows it:

• iCloud Drive: your scores in iCloud, on each of your devices signed in to it.
• On My iPad (On My iPhone): scores kept on this device only. Reflow has its own folder there, Reflow.
• Dropbox and other storage apps: they show under Locations once the app is installed and turned on in Browse › ⋯ › Edit.

Recents lists the scores you opened last, wherever they are; Browse shows the places. Search, sort, tags, and moving or renaming a file work as they do in Files: press and hold a score for its menu.

At the top, Reflow adds its own buttons: the stack at the left opens the Sample Browser; at the right, the gear opens Reflow’s settings, ? opens About Reflow, and the cart, until you have the unlock, shows what it adds.

On the Mac, a score is a file in any folder: your Documents, iCloud Drive, a Dropbox folder, an external disk. Reflow uses the Mac’s own windows for files, so they work as in any document app.

Tap a score to open it. A score somewhere else opens in Reflow too:

• In Files, tap a .flow file, or press and hold a Guitar Pro file and choose Open With › Reflow.
• From Mail, Messages or another app, share the file and choose Reflow. If the file isn’t somewhere the browser reaches, such as a mail attachment, Reflow keeps a copy in its folder and opens that; the original stays where it was.

• File › Open… (⌘O), then choose the file.
• File › Open Recent lists the scores you opened last.
• In the Finder, double-click a .flow file, or drop a score on Reflow’s icon in the Dock.

There is no Save button: Reflow saves your score on its own as you work. The top bar shows where it stands:

• ✓ Saved: everything is saved. On iPad the word shows for a moment after each save, then only the check stays; on iPhone the check is a small badge on ✕.
• An outlined dot: you have changes Reflow hasn’t saved yet. It saves them shortly, with nothing for you to do.
• Saving…: a save is taking a little longer than usual.
• Couldn’t save (in red): the last save failed, for example because the folder the file is in can’t be written to. Your changes are still in the open score. Tap it to try again or to save a copy somewhere else.

Tapping ✕ saves first and closes the score only once the save has worked. If it fails, the score stays open and Reflow offers Try Again, Save a Copy… (a new .flow wherever you choose; the original file stays where it is), Close Without Saving and Keep Editing.

File › Save (⌘S) saves the score; a new score asks where to keep it the first time. The Mac also saves your work as you go, and File › Revert To goes back to an earlier version.