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Problems reading output from MF2005 model converted to mf6 despite successful intermediate steps. #1800

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Aloha.

This quandry was solved with the help of Chris Langevin through the flopy Discussion page on github.
The cause was that I did not copy over the mfsim.nam file after running mf5to6. Once that was run, I did:

cp Maui_fut_mf6.* ../mf6/.

which only copied the originally-named model files to ./mf6 where I was then running python3 and, of course, that didn't work.
I was under the mis-apprehension that the Maui_fut_mf6.nam file was the only one needed and I was doing the following:

ln -s ./Maui_fut_mf6.nam mfsim.nam

Not realizing that there can be multiple *.nam files and that mf6 uses mfsim.nam as the top-level simulation file.
I don't know how I would have discovered this otherwise with…

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