Dear FreeSurfers, 

To get a better view on the pial surface of the Heschl' Gyri I used the command mri_vol2surf after having created the suitable label with (label2vol). My goal is to get

My Command was:  mri_vol2surf --src pf_lh_vol.mgz --hemi lh --srcreg register.dat --out_type paint --o A1surf-lh.w

The output file was created without any error, but loading the file in freeview or tksurfer an error occured:

command: tksurfer WH lh A1surf-lh.w    
                                                         
subject is WH
hemi    is lh
surface is A1surf-lh.w
surfer: current subjects dir: /Volumes/Macintosh/Freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide
surfer: not in "scripts" dir ==> using cwd for session root
surfer: session root data dir ($session) set to:
surfer:     /freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide
checking for nofix files in 'A1surf-lh.w'
Reading image info (/Volumes/Macintosh/Freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide/WH)
Reading /Volumes/Macintosh/Freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide/WH/mri/orig.mgz
surfer: Reading header info from /Volumes/Macintosh/Freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide/WH/mri/orig.mgz
ERROR: MRISread: file '/Volumes/Macintosh/Freesurfer/Kontrollen/A1_Wilts_Heide/WH/surf/lh.A1surf-lh.w' has 0 vertices!
Probably trying to use a scalar data file as a surface!

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Holger