Hello, everyone.
The issue seems to be your lh.pial file, is it symbolic link?
There are maybe issues in the ways links are being handled here.
FreeSurfer 7.x creates links between certain files, typically lh.pial is not a real file, but a symbolic link to lh.pial.T1.
Because symbolic links are not handled in all the programs or OS in the same way, there are sometimes conversions that are done, e.g. when copying the FreeSurfer subject folder to a Windows computer, or when zipping and unzipping.
Different states can result from these successive symbolic link conversions: …
