Can't Clear or Stop File Caching while Building Site - caching

Working on a site, using Chrome Incognito to review my changes, but files are still being cached and I can't review what I've done. Incognito isn't supposed to cache files. I just had a session with my hosting server to be sure nothing is being cached there, and it's not. To be certain, I deleted the file I'm working on from the server, then logged into a remote computer where I tried accessing the file and got a 404 error, so I know it's not cached on the server. I then completely shut down Chrome in this computer, restarted, opened an Incognito Window, went to the URL, and the file is still showing in a state before I made the most recent changes I'm trying to verify. I've repeatedly cleared the Chrome cache, but that doesn't effect Incognito. How do I clear whatever is caching these files in my system? Or maybe a better question would be, how are developers avoiding cache issues when building?

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Recently I added a Google maps plugin and changed some header images.
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My browser takes a very long time to re-read the files on the localhost server.
I'm on a mac using Google Chrome, but have seen the same problem with Safari and Firefox.
Using cmd+shift+r does not work, and even dumping the cache through the browser does nothing. All I seem to be able to do is wait untill it's fetched the latest files.
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Doh... quite a simple question, why noone was willing to answer?
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Temporary Internet Files is a pretend folder. The view you see in Explorer is a combination of the actual files on disk, which live in securly unpredictably named subfolders, and the Wininet Url Cache Containers that store the metadata about the files (like what URL they came from, expiry date, etc). If you use filesystem APIs, you'll get what's actually there. If you use shell APIs, however, you can enumerate them in the way you want. Try starting with SHParseDisplayName() and go from there.

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