Moving Photoshop Cache Folder

My Photoshop CS6 Perpetual Cache is on a drive that undergoes backup - I don't want Cache backed up. I'm using Win 7 Pro 64 bit
Please, how can I move it to another drive, can't find a way in Photoshop - Edit --- Preferences. I would also like to limit the life of the cache folder to the period of use of Photoshop and Bridge.
Further, on being invited to upgrade my Applications Manager, Photoshop CS6, Bridge and Camera Raw today, the Applications Manager update failed - I waited 2 hours before stopping with task manager, I know, stupid, but would you risk it? It seems I didn't have Applications Manager aboard and trying to later download and install it, failed. Any thoughts please - I gues it's because I don't subscribe to the new Cloud. Surely the upgrade window should have said something like - "Sorry update has failed"!
Thanks for all the help in the past and thanks in anticipation for help with these new questions.

Thanks Chris
I decided on an experiment:
Firstly, I opened Photoshop CS6 Perpetual and then went to my 3T Drive
J: and there it was, Photoshop Tmp ..... which I think is the scratch
file.
In Edit - Preferences - Performance; there is a dialogue box for
History, Cache and Scratch with Scratch having a choice of drives - I
(me) chose J:. On closing Photoshop ...Tmp disappeared from J:.
Secondly, Bridge CS6 opened to a folder "Churches All" which has three
files not in sub-folders - I found two folders on J:; "256" and "1024",
each containing the same three files as in "Churches All". I closed
Bridge but those two folders plus two more; "data" and "full" remained.
"data" contains a file(?) called "store", but "full", paradoxically,
was empty.
Not sure what the above explains but Bridge does leave a trail of
folders/files, as shown on my I: drive back to 2012. Deleting those
folders/files manually does not seem to upset Photoshop, and now, having
a huge second drive, I suppose they are bearable but then I'm only a bit
more than a casual user. But once I start backing up to that drive the
story may be different. It would be nice if the system automatically
removed the cache after closing down photoshop/bridge.
warmest regards
graham davies

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Thanks Chris
I decided on an experiment:
Firstly, I opened Photoshop CS6 Perpetual and then went to my 3T Drive
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In Edit - Preferences - Performance; there is a dialogue box for
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Bridge but those two folders plus two more; "data" and "full" remained.
"data" contains a file(?) called "store", but "full", paradoxically,
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Not sure what the above explains but Bridge does leave a trail of
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a huge second drive, I suppose they are bearable but then I'm only a bit
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I just installed Photoshop CS6 and noticed a non-critical, but nevertheless annoying problem in Bridge (Platform: Win7 x64):
When I try to relocate the cache folder (Menu: Edit -> Preferences -> Cache -> Location, then pressing the button "Choose"), the path selection dialog that pops up is actually incomplete.
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Thanks for your continuing suggestions, Curt,
The date of the document you included is 2006, so it is way out of date.
Mmmh, I can only see:
/Last updated
2011-06-30/
While that's not brand new (and doesn't explicitely mention CS6), it's
significantly newer than 2006 and it's the exact same page that comes up
when you open Bridge's help window and search for "reset". Other pages like
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2009/10/resetting_bridges_preferences.html
and
http://planetphotoshop.com/resetting-bridges-preferences.html
also concur that it's CTRL-ALT-SHIFT - which is what I used to
successfully reset the settings.
But let's stop talking about what's the proper way to reset Bridge's
preferences and get back to the actual topic:
In preferences/startup scripts do you have checks for at least Bridge
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I just had a look, and every startup script is checked (including the
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Manuel

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