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I had this problem a while ago. I was using Dreamweaver, and the FTP client within it. I would connect to my site, open a file, save it, go to the site, and no change.
Ensure you have the "Update module template .html files from themes/your theme/templates directory?" turned to 'Yes' in System Admin\Preferences\General Settings. If its set to 'no', then this will be why you are not seeing the changes.
Then, I'd clear the 'templates_c' in the root of your site folder by deleting everything that was in it - its a cache of its own seperate to that on your own PC.
If neither of these two things help, try this...
In my case, eventually (with the help of fellow Xoopers) I discovered that all I was doing was loading, changing and saving a cached version of the file that Dreamweaver had stored itself.
So what I did was this - deleted my locally stored copy of my site from my PC and then downloaded my entire site using 'SmartFTP' (www.smartftp.com - its free to download and very good). This way, I knew that what I had on my computer was exactly the same as what was on the server.
Then, I made any changes I wanted to by simply opening them in DW but from my hard disk and not the server, then saved it and closed it, then accessed the server using SmartFTP, and uploaded it from my own PC using drag and drop. This way, you avoid any caching problems. Always close your files, refresh your directory listings (by pressing F5) to ensure you are looking at the latest copies of everything. Its a good tip!
Good Luck
Ted
