Dear Freesurfers,

I am experiencing the following problem when I load the qdec.table.dat file in qdec:

Loading data table /Volumes/fMRI/Scanner_Data/qdec/qdec.table.dat...

QdecDataTable::Load: will attempt to open as Mac text file...

Number of columns: 4

fsid column: 1

Number of factors: 3

Number of subjects: 89

Reading discrete factor levels from config file /Volumes/fMRI/Scanner_Data/qdec/gender.levels

done.

ERROR: /Volumes/fMRI/Scanner_Data/qdec/gender.levels is invalid. Must have at least two levels.

The discrete factor is gender. I tried adding a new line at the end of both qdec.table.dat and gender.levels files, but still have the problem. I attached the gender.levels. I created both .dat and .levels files in excel, and saved as delimited txt, then forced the extension to be .levels and .dat. Did I do anything wrong when creating them? Also I noticed "QdecDataTable::Load: will attempt to open as Mac text file...", could this mean the error may be from qdec.table.dat file?

Thank you very much! All the best,