diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/geo/meta/NetCDFMetadata.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/geo/meta/NetCDFMetadata.java
index 0a5d551..0d78ed1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/geo/meta/NetCDFMetadata.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/geo/meta/NetCDFMetadata.java
@@ -421,7 +421,9 @@ public class NetCDFMetadata {
 
 		GNClient client = new GNClient(geonetworkUrl);
 		client.login(geonetworkUser, geonetworkPwd);
-		client.insertMetadata(new GNInsertConfiguration("3", "datasets", "_none_", true), meta2File(meta));
-
+		File tmetafile = meta2File(meta);
+		client.insertMetadata(new GNInsertConfiguration("3", "datasets", "_none_", true), tmetafile);
+		tmetafile.delete();
+		
 	}
 }