Hi Mia,

while that is possible, it may be smarter to re-run those subjects from scratch. It is unclear why those files are empty. Maybe there are files that have been partially written etc. Those would not be re-created. I'd be very reluctant re-using data even partially that I know has been corrupted somehow.
When re-running use the same FS version that was used initially, or better re-run the whole dataset with 5.3 if the data is really old.

Best, Martin

On 02/10/2014 04:31 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:

Hi Mia

delete the 0 length files and run recon-all -make all -s <subject>

cheers
Bruce
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Borzello, Mia wrote:

Hi Freesurfers,
I was wondering if there was a way to kind of fill in the blanks for a
Surfer Output folder. I am working with an old data set, and it seem that
some of the files are empty (0 bytes), "rh.pial" for example. Is there a way
to pass the SurferOutput folder in and recreate what's missing?

Thanks,
Mia
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