I would try setting the environment variable FS_LICENSE to the absolute path of your license.txt file, e.g, copy it to your home directory (making up this example path /Users/nikolai/license.txt), and then (in sh or zsh),

$ export FS_LICENSE=/Users/nikolai/license.txt

… check you can read the file ...

$ cat $FS_LICENSE

If you used the Mac 7.2.0 .pkg file to install freesurfer (https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/7.2.0/freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0.pkg), then it should be installed under /Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0. If your version of MacOS is too old, I believe the installer will tell you and refuse to install freesurfer. If it did install it then you should see the following,

… set FREESURFER_HOME ...

$ export FREESURFER_HOME=/Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0

… source setup file ...

$ source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh

-------- freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0-20210713-aa8f76b --------
Setting up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL)
FREESURFER_HOME   /Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0
FSFAST_HOME     /Applications/freesurfer/7..2.0/fsfast
FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT nii.gz
SUBJECTS_DIR   /Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0/subjects
MNI_DIR     /Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0/mni

$ which freeview

/Applications/freesurfer/7.2.0/bin/freeview

… try running freeview w/o any arguments to see if an empty window will open …

$ freeview

If you get an error notification, then try to capture the error report (core dump). You can send it to me directly if you like as it’s kind of long to post to the list.

- R.

On Nov 8, 2021, at 14:02, Nikolai Chapochnikov <nchapochnikov@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

Thank you for your help!

I have an old intel mac (not M1). I allowed Freeview to access all my disk. I also put the license file and run the export commands (but not sure if it useful to run freeview.app?). But still it crashes when I try to open a volume file... Any other suggestions?

Thank you very much!

Best wishes,
Nikolai

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 10:56 PM fsbuild <fsbuild@contbay.com> wrote:
Hello Nikolai,

A posting from September lists some things you can try,

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I would try getting a new license file first. I will send the text to your email as well.

- R.

On Nov 6, 2021, at 16:30, Nikolai Chapochnikov <nchapochnikov@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

I just installed freesurfer 7.2.0 on mac os 11.6 using the pkg. Freeview opens, but as soon as I select a nii file to load, it crashes.
Here is the report I get:
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Could someone please help with this?

Thank you very much!
Nikolai

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