Move pdf from chrome cache instead of downloading again

Response by poster: Betelgeuse, I was able to complete the first step found the cache folder on my computer but I don't understand how to find the right file. Downloaded this program but though that lists all the files, the one I want isn't there.

Maybe it's just gone. I don't want to pry, but we might be able to help find it somewhere else if you could give us the name of the PDF, some idea of the content, etc. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE.

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Nice to see that you found a solution already. With what you do, basically all files from a folder starting with "i" get this header. This will lead to the same result, but performance-wise it should be cheaper. A very good point, thanks for pointing this out. What about the unfortunate souls that have to use IIS instead of apache? All works perfectly until it comes to updating a file, in this case a. PDF file. When a user updates the. PDF the new file is on the server as expected and the older version deleted.

A user is getting the new version providing they never opened the old version. Now the problem If a user has opened the older version of the. PDF at some point in the past they do not get the newer version when a link is clicked to view the document even though its only the new version actually physically on the server. How can I get around this? Due to the amount of users and the number of times a day some of the documents are updated asking users to manually clear any cache is not practical.

If you have a path to your pdf-download, use that instead so other files from your site except the PDF's will be cached. Try this in a browser.