When I try to install create-react-app (or nodemon) globally or even within a project, I get the following error. However, I can install other packages perfectly fine both globally and locally. I think it has something to do with the fact that both create-react-app and nodemon are run from the terminal rather than used within a project's code.

I have already tried reinstalling nodejs and opening the terminal as administrator, but that did not work.

```
$ npm i -D nodemon
npm ERR! path C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_cacache\index-v5\78\49\9aac8fdb9b898c6d95e47da44f0425e95568d85f83d82f7bae06293b0a03
npm ERR! code UNKNOWN
npm ERR! errno -4094
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! UNKNOWN: unknown error, open 'C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_cacache\index-v5\78\49\9aac8fdb9b898c6d95e47da44f0425e95568d85f83d82f7bae06293b0a03'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-12-22T13_29_35_317Z-debug.log

```

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UPDATE: When I ran npm cache clean --force, I got the following error

```
$ npm cache clean --force
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
npm ERR! path C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_cacache\index-v5\78
npm ERR! code UNKNOWN
npm ERR! errno -4094
npm ERR! syscall unlink
npm ERR! UNKNOWN: unknown error, unlink 'C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_cacache\index-v5\78'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Shivang\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-12-22T13_55_42_508Z-debug.log

```