Template pages won't update

Hi,
I am making a website for somebody and for now I am looking
at it in a folder on my site. I am having trouble with the template
pages not updating when I make changes to the template. Would it be
because I have a folder named Template in my site and another one
within the folder where the other site is? If so, how can I fix it?
Thank you,
Charley

Here are six ways to make changes not propagate from Template
to child -
1. Rename the Templates folder
2. Move the Templates folder to some other folder level in
the site other
than root level
3. Move a template out of the Templates folder.
4. Make changes to an editable region of the template (which
will not
propagate)
5. Assume that template changes can be uploaded to the server
without also
uploading the changed local files
6. Corrupt the site cache so that the link between template
and child page
is broken
The latter problem can be repaired by using SITE | Advanced
> Recreate Site
Cache, and the five others can be fixed by just not doing
them. Have you
done any of those?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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> Hi,
> I am making a website for somebody and for now I am
looking at it in a
> folder
> on my site. I am having trouble with the template pages
not updating when
> I
> make changes to the template. Would it be because I have
a folder named
> Template in my site and another one within the folder
where the other site
> is?
> If so, how can I fix it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Charley
>

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