I keep getting a lightroom encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit error. I am running Windows 8. Any thoughts on how to fix?

Been trying for hours to figure this out. Anyone have any ideas?

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Use Windows Explorer to open the folder containing your catalog. The normal location is Pictures\Lightroom. Locate a folder with the extension .lrdata and delete that folder. Then you should be able to start Lightroom again, and Lightroom will begin building and new previews folder. Do not delete anything else.

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You need to delete your preview cache and have Lightroom rebuild it. Cache location can be found here.
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-locations-lightroom-41.html
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https://forums.adobe.com/message/6219922#6219922
See if the issue in the thread above helps you to solve your problem.

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It isn't a file, it's a folder. It will have the same name as your catalog, but will have the extension data. It will be in the same folder along with your catalog. If you need to use the search feature to search for *.lrdata.

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I'd appreciate any suggestions
Many thanks

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Talked to Adobe support this morning, this is their response in case anyone else is looking for help. I'm running a Windows 7 box, LR 5.6.
Gokul: Click on start and type %appdata%, then open roaming folder.
Edward: ok
Gokul: Open Adobe folder.
Gokul: Open Lightroom folder.
Gokul: Open Lightroom folder> Preferences.
Edward: ok
Gokul: Rename Lightroom 5 Preferences.agprefs file as Lightroom 5 Preferences.agprefsOLD.
Edward: OK
Gokul: Please check if you can launch Lightroom without any error.
Edward: it shows me a welcome screen and is asking me to select my country
Edward: aka, register the software
Gokul: You can skip and launch it.
Edward: LR catalog not found
Gokul: Please select the catalog.
Edward: my original catalog?
Gokul: Yes.
Edward: testing integrity of catalog
Edward: loaded just fine
Gokul: Okay.
Gokul: Please check if you can re-launch it again.
Edward: yes, it worked!
Gokul: Excellent!
Gokul: Since your preferences were corrupted you were facing issue so we renamed the preferences file to reset it.
Edward: aha....ok
All of my import/export presets were intact along with develop user presets. I'm happy as a clam for my $10/month!

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