# No Way to Force Refresh of External Item in IDE **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 30, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/no-way-to-force-refresh-of-external-item-in-ide/65295 "2021-08-30T21:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Dellos](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/anthony_dellos/32/208_2.png) [@Anthony\_Dellos](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Anthony_Dellos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/no-way-to-force-refresh-of-external-item-in-ide/65295/1 "2021-08-30T21:48:12Z")
Best I can tell, there’s no way to _ **force** _ an external item in a project to reload other than closing the project entirely and then re-opening it. In short, what I’d like: - Right-click external item in IDE - Click “Refresh This Item” - External item is reloaded from Disk I’m seeing this issue most often with **Classes** which are external. Modules seem to be more likely to refresh when changes are made. The closest example I can find of a related case is this case from way back in 2010. \<[https://xojo.com/issue/11725](https://xojo.com/issue/11725)\> but it seems to be asking for more than what I am. (it wants to add protection via an alert to prevent overwriting a newer version of an external item) Additional details: - All external items in my projects are stored using XML format. - I’m running 2019 Release 3.1 and 2021 Release 1.1 on macOS 10.14.6 ---
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Dellos](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/anthony_dellos/32/208_2.png) [@Anthony\_Dellos](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Anthony_Dellos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/no-way-to-force-refresh-of-external-item-in-ide/65295/2 "2021-08-31T12:54:51Z")
Replying so this shows up for the morning crowd. Does anyone have any tips/tricks on forcing external items to reliably refresh? Is there a better feature request to sign onto than [https://xojo.com/issue/11725](https://xojo.com/issue/11725) ?