The general solution to this issue is known: update all hosts to 4.19.0. We found this too late for a general update today. However, BL scientists may ask for it. Takes a call to MF and about 20 minutes.
Options: the lambda TS keeps the file open, not so good
LaVue can now dump images to a temporary HDF file which can be opened by some application. Florian is looking at it.