# Loading Text files, with no caching

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/94406>\
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**Created:** [November 12, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/94406 "2003-11-12T10:02:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-files-with-no-caching/94406/1 "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?