Hi Chikku, I think this is a permissions issue. Check that you have write permissions to where you are trying to write the stats table. -Louis

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Varghese Chikku wrote:

Dear FS team, I  tried to  run this  command

asegstats2table --subjects bert ernie fred margaret --meas volume --tablefile aseg_stats.txt

But got this error,permission denied,

SUBJECTS_DIR : /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects

Parsing the .stats files Building the table.. Writing the table to aseg_stats.txt Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/freesurfer/bin/asegstats2table", line 517, in <module>

write_table(options, rows, columns, table)   File "/usr/local/freesurfer/bin/asegstats2table", line 462, in write_table     tw.write()   File "/usr/local/freesurfer/bin/datastruct_utils.py", line 58, in write

fp = open(self.filename, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'aseg_stats.txt' freesurfer@freesurfer-VirtualBox:/usr/lib$

Many thanks

Chikku