chmod 755 is not the solution since it gives writing permission only to the owner of the directory.

Use:

chmod 777 $SUBJECTS_DIR

Or

chown YOUR_USERNAME $SUBJECTS_DIR

2009/7/15, Barnali Basu barnali.basu@gmail.com:

Experts

I am stuck up with a real basic issue, which I have done easily manytimes in the older version. I have downloaded and installed the stable v4.4.0 version . I am trying to create a new subject directory, but its throwing the error

cd subjects barnali-work:/usr/local/freesurfer/subjects> mksubjdirs ja mkdir: cannot create directory `ja': Permission denied ERROR: creating directory ja

I tried doing chmod 755 from root, it says operation not possible.

Where am I going wrong

Thanks

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