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Further info. 1. I confirmed that the RAF has been positioned to zero because in the call to H5header#private DataObject(long address, String who) address=0 and who=null 2. Looking at the call stack, the file is being examined for an attribute name "DIMENSION_LIST" which for a netcdf-4 file, contains the dimension scales names, which is more or less the names of shared dimensions. 3. If DIMENSION_LIST is found, then the code calls "makeAttribute" with the claim: "// this reads in the data" Needs more exploration. =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RDP-163061 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.