The answer is yes, indeed. Just be careful when you report your results, specifying which version you used for what. Cheers, /Eugenio
-- Juan Eugenio Iglesias ERC Senior Research Fellow Translational Imaging Group University College London http://www.jeiglesias.com http://cmictig.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ On 12/12/2017, 02:06, "freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of Bruce Fischl" <freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu on behalf of fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote: Hi Joonyoung. I'll leave this for Eugenio, but I think the answer is yes cheers Bruce On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, 강준영 wrote: > Hi Bruce! > Thank you for your fast and kind answer. > > I have one more detailed question that I forgot to ask.. > > The main reason I want to update freesurfer is to use better hippocampal subfield and I want to make > the subfield based on my previous data (in the older version freesurfer path) > > I expected to do recon-all without -all option (but only with hippocampal subfield option) in the > new version because I've already done "recon-all -subjid ${subject} -all -hippo-subfields" in the > older version. > > Can I do it with new version installed in a new location? > > Thanks again! > > Sincerely, > > Joonyoung. > > > 2017-12-12 10:44 GMT+09:00 Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>: > Hi Joonyoung > > you can just install the new version in a new location and point your path at it instead > of the older version. > > cheers > Bruce > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, 강준영 wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm Joonyoung Kang, a graduate student in neuroscience. > > I've been using freesurfer over an year and I realized that I've used an old > version of it. > > So I decided to update freesurfer and I couldn't find a way to do that. > > Do I just have to re-install the new version of freesurfer? > > If so, do I have to make a backup for my previous data in freesurfer > folders? > > Thank you! > > > > p.s. > I'm currently using MacOS X (10.11.6), > freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.3.0, and > Xquartz 2.7.11 > > > Sincerely, > > Joonyoung Kang. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly > dispose of the e-mail. > > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer