It seems that you should change the permission of "Users/Sampada/Desktop/AD/fsaverage/label/“ as 755:
If you cannot do this because you are not the owner of the directory, then just copy fsaverage directory into your working directory:
cp -r ${SUBJECTS_DIR}/fsaverage ${YOUR_DIR}/fsaverage
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Seung-Goo KIM
> On 2017-02-04, at 03:07, Dr Sampada Sinha
drsampadasinha@gmail.com wrote:
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> Dear Freesurfer experts,
>
> I am trying to create medial temporal lobe and for that I ran the command mri_annotation2label to create ?h.entorhinal.label, ?h.temporalpole.label and ?h.parahippocampal.label from fsaverage and stored these labels in labels.?h directory. After this I ran mris_label2annot, taking cue from page
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mris_label2annot https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mris_label2annot.
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> My command line is the following (fsaverage has been linked to my subject directory:
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> rmbp:AD Sampada$ mris_label2annot --s fsaverage --h lh --ctab /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/bert/label/aparc.annot.ctab --a myaparc --l ./labels_lh/lh.temporalpole.label --l ./labels_lh/lh.parahippocampal.label --l ./labels_lh/lh.entorhinal.label --nhits nhits.mgh
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> However, it comes with following error
>
> Writing annot to /Users/Sampada/Desktop/AD/fsaverage/label/lh.myaparc.annot
> could not write annot file /Users/Sampada/Desktop/AD/fsaverage/label/lh.myaparc.annot
> Permission denied
>
> Will you please let me know how to fix this problem . I can see its a permission error but don't know how to overcome it.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Kind regards,
>
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> Sampada
> Research medical scientist (B)
> Department of Geriatric Mental Health (DGMH)
> King George Medical University
> Lucknow-226003, Uttar Pradesh
> India
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