Hi Christopher,
I noticed that you were only running 'recon-all -autorecon1 -autorecon2'. I don't think ?h.white surface are generated for the command combinations. 'recon-all -all' will run all recon steps and generate ?h.white.
Here is a description of recon-all process and flags: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/recon-all
Best,
Yujing
From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu On Behalf Of Christopher Mcnorgan Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 5:10 PM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] recon-all failing to generate wm surface
External Email - Use Caution A student and I have independently been trying to reconstruct a dataset. We've tried it a couple different ways using either an additional FLAIR or a T2 image and always hit a point where the process halts because of a missing surface file:
Loading lh.white surf error: No such file or directory error: MRISread(/home/cpmcnorg/VMP/FS_002/surf/lh.white): could not open file
This has happened when running just the autorecon1 step or both autorecon1 and autorecon2. I'm using freesurfer 7.2.0 on a linux computer, and my student is running 7.3.2 on a Mac. In my most recent test, I ran recon-all -autorecon1 -autorecon2 -i <path to T1 file> -T2 <path to T2 file> -subjid <ID> and I have several surface files (e.g., ?h.orig and even ?h.white.preaparc) but not the ?h.white surface. I'm unclear what's causing the recon-all script to look for the wm surface before it's been created.