# Maintaining Label Order in YOLOv8 Export from Roboflow
**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/maintaining-label-order-in-yolov8-export-from-roboflow/6880
**Category:** 🤝 Community Help
**Tags:** export
**Created:** [August 24, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/maintaining-label-order-in-yolov8-export-from-roboflow/6880 "2024-08-24T20:30:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Nik](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Nik)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/maintaining-label-order-in-yolov8-export-from-roboflow/6880/1 "2024-08-24T20:30:28Z")
Hi everyone,
I’m facing an issue with Roboflow when exporting my datasets in the YOLOv8 format. The labels in the exported ZIP file do not appear in the order I originally specified during class creation. I want my classes/labels to remain in the exact order I entered them, even if I don’t use all the classes in each dataset.
Here’s the order of my labels:
1. Finger\_Blue
2. Finger\_Red
3. Finger\_Yellow
4. HB\_Two
5. HB\_Three
6. RB\_Two
7. RB\_Three
8. Mounting\_Station
9. No\_Part
10. Assy\_0
11. Assy\_25
12. Assy\_33,3
13. Assy\_50
14. Assy\_66,7
15. Assy\_75
16. Assy\_100
17.
For example, even if I don’t use **Finger\_Blue** in a dataset and only include **Finger\_Yellow** , I still want **Finger\_Blue** to correspond to class 0 and **Finger\_Yellow** to class 2 in the export.
Is there a solution to keep the label order intact regardless of which classes are used in the dataset? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/maintaining-label-order-in-yolov8-export-from-roboflow/6880/2 "2024-09-14T20:31:15Z")
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