Use the tar comand in a terminal window instead when you install the
update.
Best
Torben
On 11/12/2007, at 02.20, Dien, Joseph wrote:
> There are also two other problems that tend to come up on OS X
> (although I'm running 7.4, not 7.5, so I can't be sure about what
> you are getting). One problem is that folks sometimes just drag the
> updated folders into the SPM folder. This causes problems because
> the update has the same folder structure as the SPM installation but
> only the files that have been updated. So if the folder originally
> had ten files and only one was updated, then after dragging the
> update folder over and replacing the folder, now there is only the
> one new file in the folder and the other nine unchanged files have
> been deleted. This comes up with OS X because the archiving program
> usually used by OS X users (stuffit expander) doesn't take care of
> incremental updates for you.
>
> The other thing that has come up in the past is that stuffit
> expander was corrupting the tar files. I don't know if the current
> one still has that problem (and I don't know which version you are
> using). Anyway, I would check the SPM archives. There have been
> postings on alternatives to stuffit expander.
>
> Anyway, I can say that I've been using SPM5 on a G5 Mac and matlab
> 7.4 without any problems.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Joe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) on behalf of Greig de
> Zubicaray
> Sent: Mon 12/10/2007 5:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SPM] Problems with SPM5 on OSX
>
> Hi Amy,
>
> Try recompiling the mex files using the Makefile in the spm5/src
> directory.
>
> Instructions are here:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Greig
>
>
> On 11/12/2007, at 5:36 AM, Amy Janes wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to run SPM 5 (unpacked using stuffitexpander) on OSX
>> Leopard using Matlab 7.5.0 (R2007b) and I can't seem to get it to
>> work.
>>
>>
>> Before adding in the updates I get the following errors:
>> Loading of toolbox /Users/amyjanes/Desktop/spm5.1/toolbox/
>> spm_config_sendmail.m failed.
>>
>>
>> I am unable to view any of the images provided in the sample data:
>> Running "Display Image"
>> Image "/Users/amyjanes/Lab/Practice SPM5/Auditory/MoAEpilot/fM00223/
>> fM00223_007.img" can not be resampled
>> Image "/Users/amyjanes/Lab/Practice SPM5/Auditory/MoAEpilot/fM00223/
>> fM00223_007.img" can not be resampled
>> Warning: FINITE is obsolete and will be removed in future versions.
>> Use ISFINITE instead.
>>> In spm_select>selector at 113
>> In spm_select at 97
>> In spm_jobman>run_ui at 2112
>> In spm_jobman>start_node1 at 668
>> In spm_jobman>start_node1 at 674
>> In spm_jobman>start_node1 at 674
>> In spm_jobman>start_node at 630
>> In spm_jobman>serial at 2034
>> In spm_jobman at 70
>>
>>
>> I am also unable to realign the data or really do anything.
>>
>> when selecting the display option and when I add the updates my
>> problems become worse in that I can't even start the fmri section of
>> spm.
>>
>> These are the errors I get with the added updates:
>>
>> ___ ____ __ __
>> / __)( _ \( \/ )
>> \__ \ )___/ ) ( Statistical Parametric Mapping
>> (___/(__) (_/\/\_) SPM5 - http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
>>
>>
>>
>> Initialising SPM..??? Attempt to reference field of non-structure
>> array.
>>
>> Error in ==> spm at 404
>> set(findobj(Fmenu,'Tag', 'Toolbox'),'String',{'Toolbox:' xTB.name });
>>
>> Error in ==> spm at 356
>> Fmenu = spm('CreateMenuWin','off');fprintf('.');
>>
>> ??? Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback
>>
>> Any suggestions as to how I could fix all of this?
>>
>> Thanks!
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