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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rsutter on May 13, 2021, 11:15:10 AM

Title: Clearing Cached Images and Files in Google Chrome
Post by: rsutter on May 13, 2021, 11:15:10 AM
Hello All,
Using the Chrome browser, I recently downloaded a file from my personal web site and decided to update it.  I did the update and then uploaded it.  When I downloaded it again, it hadn't changed.
I refreshed the download page and downloaded the document again.  Same story.  I then switched to Microsoft Edge and again downloaded the file.  This time, I got the revised file.

I suspected that Chrome was retrieving the file from cache.  I decided to purge the cache and see what happened.
Purging the cache solved the problem.  Edge would have behaved as Chrome did in how it handles cache.

I uploaded a Word document explaining the process with screenshots.
View it at http://www.fullbean.com/tutorials/clear-chrome-cache/docx
Ralph Sutter