I don't think you need to worry about that. We move/copy subject folders all the time without incident or problem.
On 5/20/19 3:49 PM, Mingzhu Hou wrote:
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Dear Freesurfer team / community,
This is a very basic and general question. I am currently setting up for a team in our lab to use the Freesurfer automated pipeline for thickness / volumetric measures on hundreds of adult brains. As there will be around 7 people working on these data (each working on different subsets of the data), I am planning to set up different working directories for each researcher’s subset of subjects to avoid possible confusion / overwriting etc. for the initial recon, manual editing and re-recon.
Once happy with the re-recon, I plan for all individual S folders to be moved to one general data folder for further analysis. I am just concerned that moving S folders between initial individual processing/analysis and further group analyses will cause problems if, say, there is directory information embedded within any of the files during initial processing.
Does anyone know if moving these files in this way might cause problems at some point, or is it advised to keep individual S folders in the same directory throughout?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Mingzhu
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