Dear All, we try to run a fMRI analysis (fixed effects) with 16 subjects (4runs/subjects) including about 16000 volumes, using SPM5. the resulting SPM.mat is quite big and we are unable to get it estimated... matlab returns an error related to its version (unable to save SPM.mat , should use the 'v7' flag) but I'm not sure it is the real problem as all is done on the same version of matlab (7.8) At the end of the process, the SPM.mat is cleared so that I can't explore it anymore. But I saw that while running, the file size grows to more than 2 GB. Is there a size limitation for the SPM.mat? our platform runs Linux x64 server with matlab 2009a (7.8) Thanks for your help Jerome -- =============================================================== Jérôme Redouté Ingénieur de Recherche - Université Claude Bernard - Lyon1 CERMEP - Imagerie du vivant Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Multimodal Et Pluridisciplinaire 59 Bd Pinel 69667 Bron - FRANCE tel : 33 (0)4 72 68 86 13 (bureau) tel : 33 (0)4 72 68 86 00 (standard) fax : 33 (0)4 72 68 86 10 ===============================================================