userSettings.mat not writeable - suggest to move it into home directory

[schloegl]

We have kilosort installed centrally on a cluster were multiple users have access, and should be able to use the centrally installed version of kilosort. unfortunately, userSettings.mat file is part of the installation, in a place were users do not have write access.

My understanding is that each user should have her own userSettings file. The following patch
https://git.ist.ac.at/alois.schloegl/Kilosort/-/commit/87e95625606528678be1a52e86963a7e381b10c8
implements this . (the patch is attached here as well

patch-kilosort-0001-userSettings-in-home-directory.diff.gz

[marius10p]

We don't really have a way to install that file in a different place, and it wouldn't work across operating systems anyway. We can try to do this for the python version.

[schloegl]

Attached is a solution, that would work on Matlab for Windows, too. Again, the current situation is not satisfying because Kilosort can not be used in a multi-user environment, like central compute cluster.

patch-kilosort-0001v2-userSettings-in-home-directory.diff.gz

The patch is also available from here:
https://git.ist.ac.at/alois.schloegl/Kilosort/-/commit/36713ba37fb0674067bc8a3b7d07a3150130c7b2

[marius10p]

Why can't each user install Kilosort inside their home directory? This is the preferred solution, especially if you are running Kilosort from the GUI

[schloegl]

In our case, the software is installed by sysadmins in a central location, users do not have admin permissions on those machines, and for several users the installation procedure is too complex to install it on their own.

[marius10p]

Fair enough! I will look into this.