How do I stop FTP from caching obsolete copies of pages?

FTP keeps retrieving old versions of critical files

[hatchez11]

I've been having major problems lately after uploading files that I knew 100% to be right.

I was about to pull my hair out, then I realized that my FTP server was not always loading the latest version of my files.

So instead of using FETCH FTP as I usually do to download my important files, I viewed them directly using TextWrangler.

Then I was more confused than ever because TextWrangle showed me a two-day old page while Fetch showed me a much more recently updated version of the exact same page.

I'm now afraid to upload crucial files (especially htaccess) because I never know what version of these files is actually going to load.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks
Brian

[StoutFiles]

FTP doesn't cache files? Are you sure you're loading into the correct directory?

[hatchez11]

You're right. Textwrangler was not opening the public_html as I was expecting, and so I was seeing an older copy of the file that I had uploaded in error to another directory some months ago. Thanks!