Please try the following with the latest 7.3.2 release. The release page is MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/rel7downloads and the link to the .pkg file is https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/7.3.2/freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.2.pkg

1) Install the 7.3.2 release listed above. It will be installed as /Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2

2) Open a new terminal window and run the bash shell as,

$ arch -arm64 /bin/bash

3) Set FS_LICENSE to point to the license.txt file you downloaded after registering via the online form at https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/registration.html. For example, it could be in your home directory as $HOME/license.txt. It can be anywhere but you just have to set FS_LICENSE to its absolute path and test it can be read.

$ ls $HOME/license.txt

/Users/<your userid>/license.txt

$ export FS_LICENSE=$HOME/license.txt

$ head -1 $FS_LICENSE

you@youremail.something <— email you used to register with

4) Setup the environment,

$ export FREESURFER_HOME=/Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2

$ source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh

-------- freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.2-20220803-878457d --------

Setting up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL)

FREESURFER_HOME /Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2

FSFAST_HOME /Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2/fsfast

FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT nii.gz

SUBJECTS_DIR /Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2/subjects

MNI_DIR /Applications/freesurfer/7.3.2/mni

5) Try running freeview from the command line w/o any arguments to see if it opens an empty window,

$ freeview

6) If that worked, quit freeview and then run freeview from the command line again to open one of the provided volumes in the 7.3.2 release,

$ freeview $SUBJECTS_DIR/bert/mri/brain.mgz

7) If that worked, then try running freeview from the command line on one of your own volume or surface files.

- R.