Dear Freesurfer Developers and Experts,

I was able to locate an answer to this problem here.

Apologies for the redundant post, the old thread did not return in my initial searches.

Best, Derek

Derek Sayre Andrews, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The M.I.N.D Institute

University of California Davis

Telephone: +1 916 703 0360
Email: dandrews@UCDavis.edu

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Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 11:00 AM
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Subject: [Freesurfer] cannot execute mri_aparc2aseg

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Dear Freesurfer Developers and Experts,

I am trying to patch freesurfer 6.0 to run make_average_subject on Mac OSx 10.13.3

I am having a problem executing the updated mri_aparc2aseg command and get the following error:

-bash: /Applications/freesurfer/bin/mri_aparc2aseg: cannot execute binary file

The steps I have taken are simply download the mri_aparc2aseg file from the patch page and change the permisions using “chmod a+x mri_aparc2aseg”

A colleague was able to download and execute the file on Ubuntu, so I am wondering if this is a mac specific problem? Any help getting mri_aparc2aseg to execute would be appreciated!

Best,

Derek

PS: If useful, the output of “file mri_aparc2aseg” is: