Hi - did you get to the bottom of this? Is it possibly a file system / quota / etc problem? If you want to upload the directories we could look into this if it still doesn't make sense. Cheers. On 8 Nov 2008, at 22:46, Katie Karlsgodt wrote: > Hi, > Thanks. I am pretty sure I just selected "registration only", I > can double check I didn't re-run post-stats, or maybe it is best > just to run them all again from scratch. I know that the design.con > files are all identical, which is why the error is so mysterious-- I > looped through and checked each one against the first one using > "diff", and the text in each file is identical. Is there anything > else that makes that particular error appear? > thanks, > Katie > > On Nov 8, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just tested a mini-example and re-running registration-only >> doesn't seem to cause a problem for higher-level analyses. Is it >> possible that you reran poststats as well as registration? Can you >> check the design.con files to see which ones don't look right? >> >> Cheers. >> >> >> On 7 Nov 2008, at 21:03, Katie Karlsgodt wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I just recently switched to fsl4 and am having some problems >>> (using 4.1.1). I ran a group of 25 subjects, all in the same feat >>> batch with the exact same parameters. I then re-ran registration- >>> only on all of the same subjects, registering them to the same >>> common brain. Now I'm trying to run a group analysis of the same >>> subjects. It starts off fine, but then I get this error: >>> >>> /space/raid/fmri/fsl-4.1.1-centos4_64/bin/fslmaths varcope1 -mas >>> mask varcope1 >>> Error - not all input FEAT directories have valid and compatible >>> design.con contrast files. >>> >>> The problem is, I can't figure out what the problem is. All >>> subjects were run together, and I checked with diff and there was >>> no difference between any of their design.con files. Is there some >>> other way to arrive at this error? I tried checking permissions, >>> none of the files are zipped, I just created all this morning in >>> the same version of fsl I'm using for the group, and I'm not sure >>> where else to look. Is it possible that fsl4 can't run group >>> analyses if registration-only has been run after the initial >>> contrasts were run? Any pointers to where I can look would be much >>> appreciated! >>> thanks, >>> Katie >>> >>> >>> >>> _________________________________________ >>> Katie Karlsgodt, Ph.D. >>> Post Doctoral Fellow, Neurogenetics Affinity Group >>> Semel Institute >>> University of California, Los Angeles >>> >>> phone: 310-794-9673 >>> fax: 310-794-9740 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering >> Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre >> >> FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK >> +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) >> [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > _________________________________________ > Katie Karlsgodt, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Fellow, Neurogenetics Affinity Group > Semel Institute > University of California, Los Angeles > > phone: 310-794-9673 > fax: 310-794-9740 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------