# Loading Text files, with no caching

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/35283
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 12, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/35283 "2003-11-12T10:02:21Z")
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### Author: ![Furious5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@Furious5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Furious5)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/35283/1 "2003-11-12T10:02:21Z")

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I am having problems with a flash file I authored a long time ago.

Basically I am calling an external text file, to get a date and various other information. It was only today that I noticed it hasn’t been updating for a while (probably the last time I cleared out my temporary internet files)

I guess this is because it is a cached version.

I remember coming across some code ages ago, which created a random number and therefore forced Flash to load the latest up to date version of an external movie.

I guess the same applies to this as well, can anyone help me with some code?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/35283/2 "2003-11-12T10:24:34Z")

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[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/cache.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/cache.htm)

[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=112680#post112680](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=112680#post112680)