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Dave	Dave posted 7 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 107K	+x thv - Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Hello, When I upload new files onto inquisit web with the same name as old (deleted) ones, it appears to use the old ones still. Is there a way to avoid having to rename my files? More details: I uploaded an inquisit script and html consent form onto inquisit web. I then made changes to the files on my computer and saved over the old ones. Then I deleted the old files from my web script, and tried to reupload the new ones. However, both the script and consent form continued to be the old ones when I ran the task from the inquisit web link. This happened both when I used 'delete selected files' on the 'upload script' page, and when I unregistered the whole script on the web scripts page, and then created a new web script (with a new link) but the same name. It also happened when I ran the script in an incognito window. I can work around it by just naming my updated files different things, but I worry I may accidentally use an old filename without realizing it. Thanks! One of several things may be happening here: 1) Uploaded files are ultimately distributed to so called "edge caches" around the world to speed up downloads for participants. For any replaced files, it can take some time until the old versions are updated on all caches and the cache starts serving the new ones. 2) It may not be web cache problem at all, but rather that the old files / previous versions are still cached locally on your own computer. In the latter case, clearing your system's temporary files / temporary internet files should get rid of the old copies and make sure the new versions are pulled. To say more, I would need (a) the link to the web experiment as well as (b) some detail that would allow me to tell whether the files I'm seeing are the old or new versions.
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thv	thv posted 7 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 23, Visits: 73	Hello, When I upload new files onto inquisit web with the same name as old (deleted) ones, it appears to use the old ones still. Is there a way to avoid having to rename my files? More details: I uploaded an inquisit script and html consent form onto inquisit web. I then made changes to the files on my computer and saved over the old ones. Then I deleted the old files from my web script, and tried to reupload the new ones. However, both the script and consent form continued to be the old ones when I ran the task from the inquisit web link. This happened both when I used 'delete selected files' on the 'upload script' page, and when I unregistered the whole script on the web scripts page, and then created a new web script (with a new link) but the same name. It also happened when I ran the script in an incognito window. I can work around it by just naming my updated files different things, but I worry I may accidentally use an old filename without realizing it. Thanks! Tags inquisit web
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