I ended up fixing the error through symlink.

________________________________ From: Rongxiang Tang rongxiangtang@yahoo.com To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:04 PM Subject: error during longitudinal -base stream

Hi All,

I found an error during the longitudinal -base stream:

#@# Ex-vivo Entorhinal Cortex Label lh Wed Sep  4 19:35:00 CDT 2013

mris_spherical_average -erode 1 -orig white -t 0.4 -o 611 label lh.entorhinal lh sphere.reg lh.EC_average lh.entorhinal_exvivo.label

painting output onto subject 611. processing subject lh.EC_average... MRISread(/mnt/fs1/work/results/lh.EC_average/surf/lh.sphere.reg): could not open file eroding label 1 times before writing thresholding label stat at 0.400 before writing Not a directory mris_spherical_average: could not read surface file /mnt/fs1/work/results/lh.EC_average/surf/lh.sphere.reg Not a directory

mris_anatomical_stats -mgz -f ../stats/lh.entorhinal_exvivo.stats -b -l ./lh.entorhinal_exvivo.label 611 lh white

limiting computations to label ./lh.entorhinal_exvivo.label. reading volume /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/mri/wm.mgz... reading input surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/lh.white... reading input pial surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/lh.pial... reading input white surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/lh.white... INFO: assuming MGZ format for volumes. No such file or directory mris_anatomical_stats: could not open label file ./lh.entorhinal_exvivo.label No such file or directory 611: could not read label file (null)

No such file or directory #-------------------------------------------- #@# Ex-vivo Entorhinal Cortex Label rh Wed Sep  4 19:35:05 CDT 2013

mris_spherical_average -erode 1 -orig white -t 0.4 -o 611 label rh.entorhinal rh sphere.reg rh.EC_average rh.entorhinal_exvivo.label

painting output onto subject 611. processing subject rh.EC_average... MRISread(/mnt/fs1/work/results/rh.EC_average/surf/rh.sphere.reg): could not open file eroding label 1 times before writing thresholding label stat at 0.400 before writing Not a directory mris_spherical_average: could not read surface file /mnt/fs1/results/rh.EC_average/surf/rh.sphere.reg Not a directory

mris_anatomical_stats -mgz -f ../stats/rh.entorhinal_exvivo.stats -b -l ./rh.entorhinal_exvivo.label 611 rh white

limiting computations to label ./rh.entorhinal_exvivo.label. reading volume /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/mri/wm.mgz... reading input surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/rh.white... reading input pial surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/rh.pial... reading input white surface /mnt/fs1/work/results/611/surf/rh.white... INFO: assuming MGZ format for volumes. No such file or directory mris_anatomical_stats: could not open label file ./rh.entorhinal_exvivo.label No such file or directory 611: could not read label file (null)

No such file or directory

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Started at Wed Sep 4 10:22:15 CDT 2013 Ended   at Wed Sep 4 19:35:10 CDT 2013 #@#%# recon-all-run-time-hours 9.215 recon-all -s 611 finished without error at Wed Sep  4 19:35:10 CDT 2013 done

although it tells me that the subject finished without error, clearly there is some error....does it affect my analysis or could I simply ignore it?

Thanks in advance, Catherine