Safari cookies, emptying cache??

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Safari cookies, emptying cache??

I'm building websites. Safari is giving me issues. I use the > Develop > Empty Caches; I even delete all 'History' ... but when I'm uploading various new versions of the website Safari is displaying cached pages that are out of date. I can't seem to find whatever it is in Safari I need to click to actually get it to display the new web content.

If I use Firefox or Chrome I just have to do a 'refresh' while on the site and I get the new page.

Please, if someone could point me to the appropriate 'click' in Safari, it would be enormous appreciated. Safari has always been my default Browser.

Ben

MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 5, 2018 8:37 AM

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Eric Root

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Mar 5, 2018 10:41 AM in response to Ben Low

Quit Safari.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash. Do a restart.

Open Safari and test.

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VikingOSX

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Mar 5, 2018 9:02 AM in response to Ben Low

And ⌘-R does not refresh your updated site view for you?

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Ben Low Author

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Mar 5, 2018 9:05 AM in response to VikingOSX

Not at all. It's as if Safari is stuck on a previous version of the page. Nothing I do seems to 'refresh' to the new page. Even rebooting Safari.

Safari has always been a bit of a pain this way ... refusing to move to the new page, always popping up a previous page cached.

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Ben Low Author

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Mar 5, 2018 11:13 AM in response to Eric Root

Hi Eric,

Exactly! This was what I was looking for. Some way to really clean out the Cache. One would think that Safari would have a functioning 'Empty Cache' built in. The one that's there in the Develop menu never seems to work.

Very much appreciated Eric. Thank you most kindly ...

Ben

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Eric Root

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Mar 5, 2018 11:15 AM in response to Ben Low

You are welcome. Glad to help.

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