thing is I can never hear dropouts, don't think I've ever had problems, then it seemed that the issue might be first accessing an uncached file, which kinda made sense why I never faced this.... I also have an abstraction that is a wrap around readsf~ that doesn't care about this and I use it many times to randomly play samples from sample banks, never found anything funny (ok, my performances are usually loud and noisy anyway, haha)
And for testing now, I just recorded a new file (ok it was in Pd), then renamed it and moved it elsewhere, no dropouts either, did my system cash this somehow and kept track of it?
Anyway, I really like how Dan put it... which is you "may" get dropouts... "if you do" then you should do this... because putting this as something thas *has* to be done everytime doesn't seem right... :)