Hello,

I finished setting up functional/structural/ROI files for 200+ subjects, and pressed done in the Setup page of the GUI. It seems to be running without an error, but it's taking a very long time. In the data folder I see that it has created DATA_Subject...mat for each subject, as well as COV_Subject... and COND_Subject...mat files. It seems to be in the process of generating ROI_Subject...mat, but this is taking roughly 1 hour per subject. Is this normal?

I'm guessing that this is the step where it is extracting the time series from each ROI, but I selected average ts rather than PCA, so I'm not sure what's taking so long. I provided subject-specific gm/wm/csf masks previously processed with spm, as well as custom ROIs containing 384 labels. 

Elsewhere in the forum I saw that it's faster to write files locally, so I have project folder setup locally, and all the mat files are saved there. However, the raw functional/structural/ROI files are on a different server (or links to the files on a mounted server). If that's causing it to slow things down, do you recommend copying all the raw data? I wanted to avoid it if it's not necessary.

Please let me know if there is a quicker way to process them.

Thank you,

Ami