I've just figured that out.....the storage device icon is on the desktop but the actual path to the storage device is different....very silly

:-)

sorry for bothering....

2012/10/2 pietro de rossi <derossi05@gmail.com>
Ok, this is what happened after I moved the folders to a storage device (MacintoshHD2)

[HG-01881507-DM7:~] aitkenww% setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL
[HG-01881507-DM7:~] aitkenww% cd $SUBJECTS_DIR
/users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL: No such file or directory.
[HG-01881507-DM7:~] aitkenww% tksurfer 348 lh inflated
subject is 348
hemi    is lh
surface is inflated
surfer: current subjects dir: /users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL
Checking 348
ERROR: cannot find subject 348 in /users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL
[HG-01881507-DM7:~] aitkenww% tksurfer 348 lh inflated
subject is 348
hemi    is lh
surface is inflated
surfer: current subjects dir: /users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL
Checking 348
ERROR: cannot find subject 348 in /users/aitkenww/desktop/MacIntoshHD2/PROC_WILL

2012/10/2 Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Hi Pietro

you should be able to. When you say you can't run tksurfer/tkmedit what happens? Can you send us screen output?

Bruce

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, pietro de rossi wrote:

Dear FreeSurfer experts,
I'm processing scans on three different computers and I would like to know
if it is possible to collect all the processed scans together in order to
analyze data on just one computer.

I realized that even moving the processed subjects folders to another folder
within the same computer (even if I set the new folder as the SUBJECTS_DIR)
I'm not able to run tksurfer and tkmedit for those subjects....am I doing
anything wrong? is it just that once you've processed the scans the
proc_folders cannot be moved?

thanks,

Pietro

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Neurobehavioral Clinical Research Section, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA