Hi Charmaine, Sounds like you just need to change the folder permissions for,

/Applications/freesurfer/

before attempting to copy the .license file to that location. -Louis

On Thu, 1 May 2014, Demanuele, Charmaine wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to install freesurfer on my mac, and I got a license key, which I need to save as ".license" file. However, the mac is not allowing me to do so.

I tried saving the file in linux and importing to the mac but this failed too.

I also tried saving it as freesurfer.license instead of just .license but I get the error:

[Charmaines-MacBook-Pro:/Applications/freesurfer] Charm% tkmedit bert orig.mgz

Couldn't create output file .xdebug_tkmedit--------------------------------------------------------------------------

ERROR: FreeSurfer license file /Applications/freesurfer/.license not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much,

Best,

Charmaine

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Charmaine Demanuele, Ph.D. Psychiatric Neuroimaging Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School 149 13th Street Charlestown Navy Yard Charlestown, MA 02129 phone: +1617-724-3170 email: charmd@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu