BRIDGE CS6 - Move CACHE without rebuilding/indexing

Hi,
been trying to find answers for this in the forum, but could not, so here we go.
I have setup a SSD RAID0 system to use as dedicated CACHE drive.
I have A LOT of files (and I mean A LOT!!) on my computer as I am working a lot with timelapse-photography.
For after effects / premiere, I have moved the cache files from the old location to a new location on the new speed-devil-SSD-Cache system, without problems.
However, when I try to move the Bridge cache folder, and then specify that new location in Bridge, it seem like Bridge is NOT picking up the files which is allready stored on the new location.
Actually Bridge starts to rebuild the cache and read all files again. This is VERY time-consuming, due to my very large number of files on my system.
Now If could leave Bridge rebuilding over night, I could probably survive. The problem is that Bridge does not start to fetch thumbs and rebuild until I enter that specific folder again with Bridge.
So my question is; How can I make Bridge believe the new cache location is still the old one, so that I don't have to rebuild all my cache files again?
For now I switched back to the old cace location for Bridge, until I figure out how to overcome this rather strange behaviour of Bridge..
Surely there has to be an elegant way of moving your cache in Bridge withough having to rebuild all over again..
Thank you for any advise..
Ola

Thanks guys!!
The problem is, the apporach you are suggesting, will make Bridge index/cache ALL of my files, and although I have A LOT of files that are indexed, I have equally many or maybe more, that are not, and need not to be indexed..
That is why I would like to MOVE the and keep the existing library so that I don't cache files I do not need to be cached...
I guess I will just have to bite the bitter apple and delete the old cache, sit and wait for each folder I access, one by one...
This is something that needs to be adressed by Adobe...

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