Dear Freesurfer Team,

I am a researcher here at University of Miami and recently downloaded Freesurfer to do Cortical Thickness analysis. Unfortunately, I have followed the installation steps very carefully as indicated on your web page but I do not know if there is a security issue on this Mac or what is it? But when I am trying to test freesurfer I get a message that says "license not found".

I have tried to install the license by copying and pasting the license text I received (license.txt) into the $FREESURFER_HOME directory but it did not work; so I tried to write the commands “cd /Applications/freesurfer” and then “pico license.txt”. In the next window I also pasted the license and then I saved the changes in pico, but that did not work either.

Is there anything else I should do?

I am attaching some screenshots from the terminal. Maybe those help you assessing the problem.

Thank you,

Carlos Millan

Research Assistant

Epilepsy Division – Neurology Department

University of Miami