diff --git a/src/cache-restore.ts b/src/cache-restore.ts
index e138707c2..6ac2cc755 100644
--- a/src/cache-restore.ts
+++ b/src/cache-restore.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export const restoreCache = async (
     );
   }
 
-  const primaryKey = `node-cache-${platform}-${packageManager}-v2-${fileHash}`;
+  const primaryKey = `node-cache-${platform}-${packageManager}-${fileHash}`;
   core.debug(`primary key is ${primaryKey}`);
 
   core.saveState(State.CachePrimaryKey, primaryKey);
diff --git a/src/cache-utils.ts b/src/cache-utils.ts
index c30e65025..8baeb620f 100644
--- a/src/cache-utils.ts
+++ b/src/cache-utils.ts
@@ -110,11 +110,6 @@ export const getPackageManagerInfo = async (packageManager: string) => {
   }
 };
 
-/**
- * glob expanding memoized because it involves potentially very deep
- * traversing through the directories tree
- */
-export const memoizedCacheDependencies: Record<string, string[]> = {};
 /**
  * Expands (converts) the string input `cache-dependency-path` to list of directories that
  * may be project roots
@@ -125,17 +120,8 @@ export const memoizedCacheDependencies: Record<string, string[]> = {};
 const getProjectDirectoriesFromCacheDependencyPath = async (
   cacheDependencyPath: string
 ): Promise<string[]> => {
-  let cacheDependenciesPaths: string[];
-
-  // memoize unglobbed paths to avoid traversing FS
-  const memoized = memoizedCacheDependencies[cacheDependencyPath];
-  if (memoized) {
-    cacheDependenciesPaths = memoized;
-  } else {
-    const globber = await glob.create(cacheDependencyPath);
-    cacheDependenciesPaths = await globber.glob();
-    memoizedCacheDependencies[cacheDependencyPath] = cacheDependenciesPaths;
-  }
+  const globber = await glob.create(cacheDependencyPath);
+  const cacheDependenciesPaths = await globber.glob();
 
   const existingDirectories: string[] = cacheDependenciesPaths
     .map(path.dirname)
@@ -143,11 +129,8 @@ const getProjectDirectoriesFromCacheDependencyPath = async (
     .filter(fs.existsSync)
     .filter(directory => fs.lstatSync(directory).isDirectory());
 
-  // if user explicitly pointed out some file, but it does not exist it is definitely
-  // not he wanted, thus we should throw an error not trying to workaround with unexpected
-  // result to the whole build
   if (!existingDirectories.length)
-    throw Error(
+    core.warning(
       'No existing directories found containing `cache-dependency-path`="${cacheDependencyPath}"'
     );