# Export dcm as a single file
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/export-dcm-as-a-single-file/32618
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 6, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/export-dcm-as-a-single-file/32618 "2023-11-06T07:41:56Z")
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### Author:  [@mohammed\_alshakhas](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/mohammed_alshakhas)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/export-dcm-as-a-single-file/32618/1 "2023-11-06T07:41:56Z")
is it possible to export dicom as a single file rather than a directory?
thanks
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/export-dcm-as-a-single-file/32618/2 "2023-11-06T15:54:19Z")
The dicom multiframe image format is very uncommon so we don’t support writing it directly (only reading it). If you really need a single dicom file you can use an external converter.
You’ll find it’s not a simple topic:
> **[How to convert DICOM sequence images into a multi frame DICOM file.](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-convert-dicom-sequence-images-into-a-multi-frame-dicom-file/3116)**
>
> Now I have dicom files of one sequence? Totally 117 files. Now I want to write these files into on .dcm File？ How to do it? not use mimics and so on.
[https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.dicom/c/h-8rj9ObBMM?pli=1](https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.dicom/c/h-8rj9ObBMM?pli=1)