This directory already exists. I had already made it, which is why I am confused that it cannot be found. 

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi Jasmin

oh, I take it back. It looks like the SUBJECTS_DIR you pointed it at didn't exist. Create it first with

mkdir /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs

then try rerunning.
Bruce



On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Jasmin Alves wrote:

Hi Bruce,
 Could you elaborate on what you mean I need to specify the input volume? 

Thanks,
Jasmin

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
wrote:
      Hi Jasmin

      if this is the first time you have run this subject (that is,
      the subject dir doesn't exist within $SUBJECTS_DIR), you still
      need to specify the input volume with -i  T1_original_joya.nii

      cheers
      Bruce

      On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Jasmin Alves wrote:

            Bruce,
            Sorry to be a pain, but for some reason, I cannot
            still get recon-all to
            work. 

            Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:Brain_Child_subs jasminalves$
            recon-all -sd
            /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs -i T1_original_joya.nii
            -subject joya -all &

            [1] 14655

            Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:Brain_Child_subs jasminalves$
            ERROR: SUBJECTS_DIR
            /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs does not exist.

            Thanks,

            Jasmin


            On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Bruce Fischl
            <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
            wrote:
                  Hi Jasmin

                  you need a '-' sign first. It should be:

                  recon-all -sd /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs -i
            T1_original_joya.nii
                  -subject \
                  joya -all &

                  cheers
                  Bruce

                  On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Jasmin Alves wrote:

                        Hi Bruce, 
                        Thanks for the reply, I attempted to
            direct
                        Subjects_dir to the folder with
                        my data but I received the following
            error. 

                        Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:Brain_Child_subs
            jasminalves$
                        export
                        SUBJECTS_DIR=/Desktop/Brain_Child_subs

                        Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:Brain_Child_subs
            jasminalves$
                        recon-all -sd
                        /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs -i
            T1_original_joya.nii
                        -subject joya all &

                        [1] 13867

                        Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:Brain_Child_subs
            jasminalves$
                        ERROR: Flag all
                        unrecognized.

                        -sd /Desktop/Brain_Child_subs -i
                        T1_original_joya.nii -subject joya all

                        Darwin Jasmins-MacBook-Pro.local 14.5.0
            Darwin
                        Kernel Version 14.5.0: Tue
                        Sep  1 21:23:09 PDT 2015;
                        root:xnu-2782.50.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64
            x86_64

                        recon-all -s joya exited with ERRORS at
            Mon Jan 25
                        21:12:58 PST 2016

                        Thanks so much,

                        Jasmin


                        On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Bruce
            Fischl
                        <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
                        wrote:
                              Hi Jasmin

                              you  need to create a directory
            where you have
                        write permission
                              and room for the subject
            reconstruction to be
                        written to, then
                              set the SUBJECTS_DIR environment
            variable to
                        point to it. At the
                              moment you are trying to use the
            subject
                        directory we
                              distribute, which is in some
            system (and
                        read-only) location.
                              You can do this on the command
            line of
                        recon-all via:

                              recon-all -sd <path to directory>
            ...

                              cheers
                              Bruce


                              On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Jasmin Alves
            wrote:

                              Hello Freesurfer,

                              I am trying to learn freesurfer
            and ran into
                        the following
                              issues below
                              running the recon -all command. 

                              FREESURFER_HOME:
            /Applications/freesurfer

                              Build stamp:
                        freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0

                              Kernel info: Darwin 14.5.0 x86_64

                                1) 

                              joya

                               2) 

                               Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:subjects
            jasminalves$
                        recon-all -i
                              T1_original_joya.nii
                              -subject joya -all &


                              3)

                              [1] 12300 

                              Jasmins-MacBook-Pro:subjects
            jasminalves$
                        mkdir:
                             
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya:
                        Permission denied

                              mkdir:
                       
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya/scripts:
                              Permission denied

                              mkdir:
                       
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya/scripts:
                              Permission denied

                              cp:
                             
                       
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya/scripts/build-stamp.txt:
                              No such
                              file or directory

                              cat:
                             
                       
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya/scripts/build-stamp.txt:
                              No such
                              file or directory

                              INFO: FreeSurfer build stamps do
            not match

                              Subject Stamp: 

                              Current Stamp:
                        freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0

                              INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is
                        /Applications/freesurfer/subjects

                              Actual FREESURFER_HOME
                        /Applications/freesurfer

                             
            /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/joya: No
                        such file or
                              directory.


                              [1]+  Exit 1                 
            recon-all -i
                              T1_original_joya.nii -subject
                              joya -a

                              Thank you,Jasmin

                        Jasmin AlvesPredoctoral Student 
                        Medical Biology Graduate Program 
                        University of Southern California
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