Hi Michelle - Based on your recon-all.log, your SUBJECTS_DIR that contains the freesurfer recon of your subject is /PHShome/my738/FSout. But based on you trac-all.log, you're using:
SUBJECTS_DIR /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula

So tracula cannot find the freesurfer recon of your subject. This is what's causing the latest error.

About the confusion with the gradient table formats: The tutorials refer to the latest version of tracula, which has been updated since the 5.3 release. The newer features included in those updates are described here:
        http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula/#Updates

Hope this helps,
a.y

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Michele Cavallari wrote:

Hi Barbara,thanks again for your help. 
I checked the bvecs file using the 'more' command, and (as you pointed out)
there was some extra text. This was likely due to MS-excel formatting, which
I have used to reshape the bvecs file from row to column configuration. Such
extra text was not part of the original bvecs file organized in rows though,
but tracula was not giving errors as well.
So, take home message#1
It is not true that FreeSurfer 5.3 allows both rows and columns
configuration of the bvecs (as stated in the wiki page). Or at least that's
not true for all the scanners. I'd recommend a column configuration of the
bvecs, even with FreeSurfer 5.3.
Also - take home message#2
verify that there's no extra text due to excel formatting in the reshaped
bvecs file.

That said, now this lead me to the next error!
It seems that there's a problem with the recon-all output that I'm using
(?). However, both the log file and the output of the recon-all processing
seem fine to me.
Here is the detail of the error message I am getting
ERROR: fio_pushd: path/to/dlabel/mni
And attached are the log files of both tracula pre-processing (with errors)
and recon-all (apparently without errors).

Any help/suggestions?
Thanks.



On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Barbara Kreilkamp <bakk....@googlemail.com>
wrote:
      Hi Michele,
This might be the solution - try the command 'more' in unix on your
column bvec and bval, they should each have one (bval) and three
(bvec) columns and no strange symbols. But you have these symbols in
the bvec-file (probably because you have extra formatting information,
that is not needed and an obstacle to Tracula).

more original_columns.bval 

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NEURO-222:tracula_help NEURO-222$ more original_columns.bvec 

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0 0 0 ^M0 0 0 ^M0 0 0 ^M0 0 0 ^M-1 0 0 ^M-0.166 0.986 0 ^M0.11 0.664
0.74 ^M-0.901 -0.419 -0.11 ^M0.169 -0.601 0.781 ^M0.815 -0.386 0.433
^M-0.656 0.366 0.66 ^M^M-0.582 0.8 0.143 ^M-0.9 0.259 0.35 ^M-0.693
-0.698 0.178 ^M-0.357 -0.924 -0.14 ^M-0.543 -0.488 -0.683 ^M0.525
-0.396 0.753 ^M0.639 0.689 0.341 ^M0.33 -0.013 -0.944 ^M0.524 -0.783
0.335 ^M-0.609 -0.065 -0.791 ^M-0.22 -0.233 -0.947 ^M0.004 -0.91
-0.415 ^M0.511 0.627 -0.589 ^M-0.414 0.737 0.535 ^M0.679 0.139 -0.721
^M-0.884 -0.296 0.362 ^M-0.262 0.432 0.863 ^M-0.088 0.185 -0.979
^M-0.294 -0.907 0.302 ^M-0.887 -0.089 -0.453 ^M-0.257 -0.443 0.859
^M-0.086 0.867 -0.491 ^M-0.863 0.504 -0.025 


You are ending up with multiple columns in the second row, please make
sure they are 3 columns.


Good luck,

Barbara



On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Barbara Kreilkamp
<bakk....@googlemail.com> wrote:
      Hi Michele,

      Do you use the dicoms or the nifti files as input to
      TRACULA?
      Also, I think the complete trac-all.log could be even more
      helpful.
      I am a newbie myself but I am having a similar problem, so
      I am trying to find a solution as well :).

      Best,
      Barbara


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Michele Cavallari
<mic...@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
      Hi Barbara,
      thanks for your reply. I checked the dwi series on a
      viewer and it looks
      fine: I have 1960 dicoms, corresponding to 56 slices
      x 35 directions
      specified in the bval/bvec. Also, I was able to
      obtain the FA and MD maps
      through fsl using the very same dicoms and
      bval/bvec.
      Any suggestion?
      Thanks


      On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Barbara Kreilkamp
      <bakk....@googlemail.com> wrote:
      Dear Michele,

      I cannot find anything wrong with your bvec and bval
      files.
      Seeing as you had an errormessage related to the dwi
      (the one about the
      dwi_frame.nii.gz): Did you check that your dwi data
      have the same amount of
      volumes as entries in bvec and bval?

      Good luck,
      Barbara



      On 28/08/2014 22:47, Michele Cavallari wrote:
      Hi,
      I'm having some problems with the first command of
      the tracula pipeline.
      I am using FreeSurfer 5.3 on a mac (OS 10.9).
      The problem seems to be related to the bvecs file. I
      received the following
      error message:
      niiRead(): error opening file
      /path/to/dmri/dwi_frame.nii.gz

      I read some threads available on your website, but
      couldn't figured out a
      solution yet. I tried to organize the bvecs in
      columns, as opposed to the
      original configuration in rows. By doing that and
      re-launching the
      pre-processing command I obtained a differente error
      message:
      Error: bvecs and bvals don't have the same number of
      entries

      The original bvals and bvecs files seem to have the
      same numbers of entries
      to me. But the bvecs file produced by the processing
      - both the bvecs.norot
      and the bvecs files in the dmri folder - don't have
      all the information of
      the vectors.

      I am enclosing a zip folder with attachments:
      1) original bvecs and bvals files organized in rows
      and columns
      2) bvecs and bvals files generated by tracula
      3) error logs

      Let me know if you need any other information.
      Thanks in advance for your help.


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