Hi Michael

I believe it is telling you that once the file expert.opts exists in the scripts dir of a subject it will be used by default, and you don't need to specify it on the command line.

cheers Bruce On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Michael Green wrote:

I've been calling up an expert options file which contains the text "mri_normalize -gentle" but I'm having trouble executing it with this command:

"recon-all -s 002 -expert 002/scripts/expert.opts"

It results in the following error:

ERROR: there is a pre-existing expert options file and you have specified an expert options file on the command-line. If you want to use the file specified on the command-line, you must run with -xopts-overwrite, or you may edit the existing file /mridata/workingdata/INS/subjects/002/scripts/expert.opts (and not use the -expert option).

The help message is a little confusing (and not use the -expert option) but executing

"recon-all -s 002 -xopts-overwrite 002/scripts/expert.opts"

gives me the following error:

ERROR: Flag 002/scripts/expert.opts unrecognized.

Any ideas or help on this one?

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