hi
   i am new in freesurfer (even if i used it many times doing reonstructions using the script reconn-all in the past and on another machine), i launched  a reconstruction of one patient using the reconn-all script and i gave before this the path to the SUBJECTS_dir.  and one or two minutes later it stopped and prompted "recon-all finished without error at Mon Nov 14 13:44:11 CET 2011 done" and all the directories in the SUBJECTS_DIR were created with the mgz file created. 

thank you