Hi 

In these scenarios (multiple users working on same source data on different CONN projects) I typically recommend using CONN's option to copy the raw data into local BIDS folders. You may do so using any of the two following procedures:

A) if using the GUI to import your raw data (in CONN's Setup.Functional or Setup.Structural tabs) simply change the option that reads "import selected files" to "copy to local BIDS folder and import".

or B) if using batch scripts to import your raw simply add a "batch.Setup.localcopy=true" field to your batch structure. 

That will create one local copy of your raw data separately for each CONN project that uses that same data, so that all preprocessed files will be stored in those project-specific folders. If (e.g. for space-saving reasons) you prefer to avoid having multiple copies of the same raw data, one undocumented option to do so would be to edit in the file conn_importvol2bids.m the line that reads "SOFTLINK=false;" and change that to "SOFTLINK=true;". That will create soft links to your raw data files in the project-specific folders instead of actually copying the raw data when importing it (so that preprocessed files will still be stored in these folders but the original data does not need to be replicated too many times). This option has not been thoroughly tested (and it only works on linux or mac systems) so please let me know if you run into any issues

Hope this helps
Alfonso
Originally posted by tkarsten: