After installing Office 2013 SP1, the partition went bigger for about 3GB. I know most of that space is due to backup files created during installation. Anyone has an idea how to remove them? I have tried the Disk Cleanup tool, but it does not detect anything.
You cann't remove them if you are planning to use future office updates, or your office got corrupted and you need to repair it other than that, if you want to remove cache, delete folder C:\MSOCache, and C:\Windows\Installer\$PatchCache$\Managed You may use NTFS compression instead, which will save you +500MB
Same here. My MSOCache folder is about 780MB. If I delete it I cant do future updates to Office 2013 ? I was quite shocked by the disk usage.
Correct me if I am wrong. If MSOCache folder is deleted, we can still install Office update in the future, but we will not be able to uninstall currently-installed Office updates, right?
Don't know exactly, but MSOCache handles original setup source cache only, has nothing to with updates
If unnecessary junk (pre SP1 updates) is an issue, as it should be; and people do not feel good about deleting MSO etc folders; would this work: 1. Uninstall all pre SP1 updates 2. Install SP1 Really lame for MS to allow office 2013 sp1 to hog so much disk space.
Yes, I am aware of that, but the "C:\Windows\Installer\$PatchCache$\Managed" folder is empty and the "C:\MSOCache" folder is non-existent. I think that 3GB for an office SP1 is just too much.
I think you will be able to update Office. After installation, I always delete that folder. And yet, I am [was] able to install additional updates.
Gotta give an update on the situation. Dunno how, but those 3GB I mentioned before, just went away. Dunno how, because I did not delete anything or do anything. Weird.
Updated MSO 2013 SP1 via Windows Update and it automatically removed all superseded updates of MSO 2013 before SP1 installation...Have only these 3 updates installed... EDIT: Ran /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase after updating SP1, it might've done that
Type this in admin command prompt: Code: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Yes, you definitely can update. Where you might run into trouble is if you go back into Setup and try to add/remove an Office component. In that case, without Msocache, it may error out though it'll likely just ask you to point to media. That would also probably happen when doing an Office repair. I usually keep Msocache but put it on my data partition. Then I create a junction back to C.