Why isn't my main menu updating after deleting old categories?

I have deleted some old categories and updated the main menu navigation but the list is not updating on the website. Checked cache and cookies. When I initially select the new menu I can see it then when I hit save it reverts to the old menu.

Anyone lese have this issue and resolved?

When editing themes or working with previews use a browsers private|incognito mode to skip local browser cache annoyances.

Be sure you are working on the published theme and not an unpublished theme or viewing a preview.

Be sure the menus have different names or you are selecting the proper menu name if you are using a theme setting to assign a navigation menu to the theme.

Toggle it off and on again with saves: Try clearing the setting entirely then assigning a object

Incognito mode will not help with this issue because menus are not cached on the client-side, they are cached on the server-side (as they should be).

The only way to force the server-side cache to be rebuilt, at least as far as I’ve been able to surmise, is to publish a theme.

So do this:

  1. Publish a different theme
  2. Publish the original theme

Works every time!

Tip: If you don’t want your Users to see you doing this make a copy of your active theme and use it for step #1.