[Freesurfer] qdec and recon-all crashes

hi freesurfer folks,

when I try to run qdec or recon-all, they crash

recon-all -s MJ0001 -qcache

if: Expression Syntax.

qdec cd: Too many arguments.

we have determined that because the subjects_directory name has spaces and ()'s in it, it is causing the two programs to crash

echo $SUBJECTS_DIR /Users/wieser/Dropbox (UWM BraIN Lab)/ImagingSuite/Blackbird/MJMRI/MJ0001

I know that linux doesn't like spaces and ()'s in the directory name, and I usually avoid them, but we have recently started using dropbox to backup our data, in Dropbox is causing the spaces and ()'s to be in the directory name. Is there any way to make recon-all and qdec run in directories that have these characters in the directory name

thanks

Jon