Saturday, April 5, 2008

Clearing Flash Cache

Sometimes it seems we empty everything we can but still that little flash item won't refresh. This has bugged me for years whenever I've done web development, but sometimes it's just good to know you can flush the "Flash" cache.

My web guy emailed me this today:

If you’re viewing a website, and are having problems with any flash application, use this web page below from Adobe to clear saved flash content on your machine.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Go to the website storage settings tab and select “delete all sites”.

This will effective allow you to flush all Flash stuff from your computer. I was surprised how much there was!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

um yeah it did not work. Deleted all and that damn swf is still not refreshing.

Anonymous said...

I'm having a problem with flash caching xml data and not updating when I change the xml file. Is there a good clean way of flushing the cache? - Arunabh Das

Anonymous said...

Yay! Worked for me! Thank you.

Anonymous said...

It didn't work everything still loads slow and I get these port errors and crashes on youtube.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget to update your Adobe Flash in the browser that you wish to use. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

Updating it should fix any errors that you are receiving and give you the latest and greatest version. A newer version was recently released.