Hello.

I'm sorry if there turns out to be a simple solution to my problem, or if it's been addressed in previous posts, but I've been trying to install wfu_pickatlas for a few hours with no luck, despite trying several options listed on this forum. I've got a Mac OS X 10.6.8 and am working in Matlab 2011a. I downloaded and unzipped a WFU_PickAtlas_3.0.4 tar file into my spm8 toolbox directory: /Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox.

When I then try to open SPM fmri, I get the following error:

??? Error using ==> wfu_spm at 169
Unknown action string ('fmri').  It possible that
/Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/WFU_PickAtlas_3.0.4/wfu_tbx_common/spm_lite
is incorrectory listed in your path and should be removed.

Error in ==> spm at 9
wfu_spm(varargin{:});

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi Maria,
  PickAtlas should be installed so that you have the following directory structure:

/Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/wfu_pickatlas
/Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/wfu_results_viewer
/Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/wfu_tbx_common

Please note, you should not have the WFU_PickAtlas_3.0.4 in the path.

Ben

Dear Ben,

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly. Really appreciate it!

I've changed the directories as you suggest, but I get the same error:

??? Error using ==> wfu_spm at 169
Unknown action string ('fmri').  It possible that
/Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/wfu_tbx_common/spm_lite
is incorrectory listed in your path and should be removed.

Error in ==> spm at 9
wfu_spm(varargin{:});

Hi Maria,

The error tells the problem and solution.  Most likely you did some version of adding all pickatlas directories AND SUBDIRECTORIES to your path.  Only the /Users/mariawitek/Documents/MATLAB/spm8_mortenj/spm8/toolbox/wfu_pickatlas directory needs to be in the path.  REMOVE (pathtool is good for this) the other wfu_* diretories and subdirectories.

Best,
Ben

Dear Ben,

Got it. Thanks!

Best,
Maria