Like I said, they changed the format at some point and stopped accepting the old format with FS 6.0.  I have used FreeSurfer for a long time too and found that I had to get a new license file with this version.

Peace,

Matt.

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Anthony Dick <adick@fiu.edu>
Reply-To: Freesurfer support list <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 5:18 PM
To: <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] license file not working

Hello,

I have used my old file, registered under two different emails (and received the code and made new files each time, named both .license and license.txt). Restarted the computer etc. I am wondering if it is a permissions issue. It seems to be finding the file where I put it. Have never encountered this issue and have been using Freesurfer for 11 years. If history is any guide, it will probably turn out to be something stupid that I did :)

Anthony


On 2/2/17 3:40 PM, Trisanna Sprung-Much wrote:
The .license that it comes with is not the same as the license.txt that you have to acquire. I was able to use an old license.txt from my Freesurfer 5.3 for 6.0.

Best

Trisanna

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:21 PM, X K <bnucon@gmail.com> wrote:
try to rename the file to license.txt?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Anthony Dick <adick@fiu.edu> wrote:
Hello,

I have been using Freesurfer for a number of years, and just installed
v6.0. I run into this problem:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Invalid FreeSurfer license key found in license file
/Applications/freesurfer/.license
   If you are outside the NMR-Martinos Center,
   go to http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/registration.html to
   get a valid license file (it's free).
   If you are inside the NMR-Martinos Center,
   make sure to source the standard environment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have a valid .license file, in the Freesurfer home directory

Last login: Thu Feb  2 15:04:01 on ttys005
-------- freesurfer-Darwin-OSX-stable-pub-v6.0.0-2beb96c --------
Setting up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL)
FREESURFER_HOME   /Applications/freesurfer
FSFAST_HOME       /Applications/freesurfer/fsfast
FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT nii.gz
SUBJECTS_DIR      /Applications/freesurfer/subjects
MNI_DIR           /Applications/freesurfer/mni
[38c9862eb0b0:~] adick% cd /Applications/freesurfer
[38c9862eb0b0:/Applications/freesurfer] adick% ls -al .license
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  140 Feb  2 15:06 .license
[38c9862eb0b0:/Applications/freesurfer] adick%

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Anthony


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