jcarson7 wrote: Finally after weeks and weeks I have found a way to get the edits to take. If anyone can explain why this works I'd love to know!
I went to my FTP and I changed the noir directory to noir1 (I was going to make a copy) when I changed the name to noir1 and then went to the uddeIM backend and selected noir1, all the edits showed up! Why the edits didn't show prior to that, I have no idea.
Thank you very much slabbi for trying to help me on this!
Hello jcarson7,
I assume you were editing the css file via FTP?! Did you open it directly in an editor? Most likely this workflow and the file permissions are to blame here. As far as I remember, your editor downloads and works with a temporary file during edits... On final save it should actually replace the original on the remote server, obviously it did not.
I remember, I had similar issues from time to time, and I did not recognize that something went wrong. At least the editor did not throw any obvious error, nor notices. It "looked" like it saves the file on the FTP... but it simply did not. Instead the "temp" local file memorized and displayed my last edits, but they never reached the FTP! I believe, the editor did not receive the needed infos from the server or it could not handle the wrong permissions on the server. It seemed to ignore them, IMHO. Conclusion: If you make edits on remote files... ALWAYS check their owner/file permissions and check the modified date and actual content.