Microsoft Office Upload Center cache constantly needs repair

Anonymous
2013-06-20T13:01:32+00:00

I originally posted this in Office365 as that was the forum I was sent to from my Administrator panel. However, they have said to post here instead. So here goes.

Since a few days ago (around the time I installed Lync Basic instead of Lync 2010), the Microsoft Office Upload Center constantly needs repair. I have deleted the caches in User/App Data/Local/Microsoft/Office/14.0/OfficeFileCache and also /15/OfficeFileCache

It is the one in /15.0 that is the issue (now up to OfficeFileCache - 10.old).

When I try the repair option, it says something is accessing the cache and please close all Office apps. Even if there is no Office app running. I stopped Lync automaticallly starting, rebooted and still the same. I have to close in the systray SkyDrivePro and SkyDrive and then the Repair can continue. Then the error is cleared.

I can leave it for 10 minutes and the Upload Centre icon sits in the systray quite happliy. Until I open Windows Explorer and click on the SkyDrivePro icon, I can see my SkyDrivePro files in Explorer as normal with the green ticks, the SkyDrivePro icon in systray says it's up to date (nothing being processed) and then the Office Upload Center error comes back.

"The Microsoft Office Document Cache encountered a problem and needs to be repaired."

I have Office 2010 on the desktop and Office365 as my company's main work environment.

I'm baffled. How can I stop this happening? Thanks.

also

I have Office 2010 on my desktop and Office365 as the work environment as stated above. The only Office 2013 components are SkyDrivePro (which used to work fine without these cache issues) and Lync (just installed via Office365 as instructed by the Office365 site to upgrade the Lync2010 I used to have which worked fine).

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Anonymous
2014-02-13T12:15:24+00:00

You guys might want to look at this reply in another forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-files/windows-81-and-skydrive-online-only-files/b752def7-de29-46be-a1fc-12f2bca467a6

I am on a home peer to peer network with office 2013 so it may not be a solution if you are on a corporate domain but the solution suggested solved all my problems, including the corrupted cache that you are discussing.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-22T10:54:42+00:00

    Was having the same problem with Office365

    I unistalled "lync web app" and skydrive --> it cured the issue

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-14T10:16:33+00:00

    When an engineer tells you to uninstall Office 365 doesn't that just scream as incompetence?  These same issues have been running for years and nothing gets done!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T22:25:10+00:00

    Just for fun: I have the 2016 office suite and windows 10 on a brand new computer and I am still experiencing similar problems with the document cache. Congratulations Microsoft for having the same problem for nearly three years on various operating systems, versions of office, and computers!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-02T22:43:57+00:00

    I would go and check out this guys answer.

    http://www.digitalcitizen.life/fix-problems-microsoft-office-document-cache-being-corrupted

    I did this and it worked!

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