I am still not sure if I am understanding the mechanics of how FEAT
works with regard to absolute and relative links. And the problem is
coming from a slightly different motivation this time.
For each of the three questions sessions, the resulting .feat directory
is about 270 Mb. When I do the second level analysis, the resulting
.gfeat directory is 715 Mb. This means that I am generating about 1.5
Gb of data storage for each of my 18 subjects and means that I will
have 27 Gb total for all of the second level runs. My hard drive on my
G4 notebook has a capacity of 40 Gb and the hard drive space isn't
expandable.
So, it looks like I am going to be stuck doing my third level analysis
on some other computer. How can I move the directories that I have
created to another machine? What do I need to change so that the runs
on the new computer will work fine? Or, is there no problem and I
should be able to move my files and run the third level analysis
without issue?
Darren
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 02:28 AM, Stephen Smith wrote:
> Hi Darren, yes, the original location of the FEAT directory is written
> into the report.html web page; that web page doesn't get re-written if
> you
> move the directory!
>
> You should be fine. From inside this directory there are symbolic links
> pointing to the structural and standard images, but these should be
> absolute links not relative, so they should not be broken.
>
> What would cause a problem would be (for example) if you had run a
> higher-level FEAT analysis feeding from this FEAT directory, and then
> moved it, and then tried to re-use the design.fsf from that
> higher-level
> analysis.
>
> Thanks, Steve.
>
>
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Darren Schreiber wrote:
>
>> I just finished a FEAT run and realized that I set the output
>> directory
>> to the wrong place. I moved the resulting directory to the place I
>> wanted it on my computer, but when I looked at the report I noticed it
>> still had the old location.
>>
>> Will moving the FEAT directory cause problems with higher level
>> analysis? It looks like a lot of the features in FSL include complete
>> paths instead of relative locations, which makes me concerned that FSL
>> won't be forgiving if I move a directory.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>
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>
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