Refreshing ePub

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- May 5, 2016 at 5:54 pm #84639
  
  Clark Kenyon
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  I check the ePubs I make in iBooks on my iPad. When I update an ePub (such as embedding a new cover) the updates don’t often show up. It’s like the iPad is displaying an earlier cached version of the book cover. Is there a way I can make iBooks refresh the ePub file it displays?
- May 5, 2016 at 6:03 pm #84640
  
  Aaron Troia
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  Oh that’s a pain and annoying, and yes, iBooks sees the two files as the same and just calls up the cached CSS, from the previous file. I’ve been giving each output a unique name (I have a UNIX workflow that zips and renames the files), usually with the time and date, and so far haven’t had any issues. So try changing the file name before you sync or upload to Dropbox and if you’re still having that issue try changing the time/date in the OPF.
  
  Aaron
- May 5, 2016 at 6:25 pm #84641
  
  Clark Kenyon
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  Thanks Aaron. Changing the file name usually works, but not in this case. Well, at least I can see that the cover has updated when I view it in ADE.
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