making an empty copy of a volume for ROI drawing - file name?

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it defaults to COPY_name_of_the_source file

is there a way to select a specific name? (other than, of course, exiting afni and renaming both HEAD and BRIK in OS/terminal)

2

There is a SaveAs button, with which you can name the result. Once that is done, all edits are made to the new dataset.

But indeed, the COPY_ dataset is created immediately, which means having to delete it.

-rick

3

Ah, SaveAs... obviously. That was pretty stupid of me. Thank you!

4

Easy to miss when you're looking at so many things.

And just so you know this "trick" - 3drename can rename your dataset or 3dcopy to copy your dataset to a new one.

5

Thank for reminding me of 3drename!

But this time I am setting ROI drawing for a collaborator who is not familiar with afni, and I am trying to make it as straightforward as possible. Using any 3dprograms probably won't count as straightforward for them. I think we'll go with SaveAs and later deleting COPY's