Hi Asa,

 

Give a try of mris_register - https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mris_register

 

Here is the syntax:

mris_register [options] <input surface> <input target template or surface> <output surface>

 

All three parameters should take full path to your files. Combining the information I got from surfreg script, <input target template or surface> is ?h.reg.template.tif from fsaverage_sym.

 

Best,

 

Yujing

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Yujing, thanks for your response

 

Yes my subject directory is /tmp/HCP. But I cannot modify it, so I’d like to reference and use the fsaverage_sym template which is located outside of the subjects directory. Is this possible?

 

If not then I’ll have to find a way to transfer the data from the unmodifiable subjects folder to one that I can play around with directly.

 

Thanks again and hoping this can be clarified!

 

 

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I think you can try to use mris_register directly.

 

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Hi Asa,

 

I’m wondering if your SUBJECTS_DIR is /tmp/HCP?

 

It looks like surfreg checks if target is ‘fsaverage_sym’. Can you try passing just ‘fsaverage_sym’?

 

Best,

 

Yujing

 

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Hi there experts!

 

I’m hoping to use the surfreg function on some data in which I can’t make any modifications to the subject directory (I’m using a cluster and the data is for public use thus prohibits any changes to it).

 

I want to use the fsaverage_sym as my target file, though the function seems to only be looking for this folder within the subjects directory. Thus when running the following command:

surfreg --s 126426 --t /project/60019995/coopapap/data/HCP/fsaverage_sym --lh

I get the following error:

ERROR: cannot find /project/60019995/coopapap/data/HCP/fsaverage_sym in /tmp/HCP

 

I’m wondering if there is a workaround to using this command even when I can’t make any modifications to the subjects directory. To summarize, I’d like all outputs to go to a personal folder, and I’d like to use a template file that is in my personal folder.

 

 

Thank you kindly.

Asa Farahani