You can find the settings for the GI Cache in Edit -> Preferences -> GI Cache on Windows and Unity -> Preferences -> GI Cache on Mac OSX. Here you can set the cache size, clear out the current cached files, as well as set a custom cache location.
If nothing in the scene has changed then lighting data should load from the cache in a very short amount of time when reloading your scene.
When the cache size grows larger than the size specified in the prefrences, Unity is spawning a job to trim the least recently used files. If all the files in the cache is in use, because the scene is very large or the cache size is set too low, you need to increase your cache size in the preferences or you will see a lot of recomputation when baking.
It is not safe to delete the GI Cache directory yourself while the Editor is running. The GI Cache folder is created on Editor startup and the Editor maintains a collection of hashes that is used to look up the files in the GI Cache folder. If a file or directory suddenly disappear, the system can’t always recover from the failure and will print an error in the Console… Please use the button in Preferences -> GI Cache -> Clean Cache for clearing the cache directory, as this will ensure that the Editor releases all references to the files on disk before they are deleted.
In the Lighting window, the bake button can expand into a dropdown that lets you clear the baked data if you are in non-continuous baking mode. This will not clear the GI Cache as that would increate bake time afterwards.
It is of course possible to share the GI Cache folder via some other means, this would make lightmap snapshot rebuild faster.