Many capture scratch folders

I am inheriting a big project. I appears the previous editors did not manage their media well. I am moving the project to a new computer (Intel Mac) and have therefore also had to upgrade to Studio 6.
1. Is it very bad to have tons of capture scratch folders?
It appears the prior editors would save new versions and rename each time, resulting in many different Capture Folders and Render Folders. My understanding is that it's best to have one set of Capture/Render folders per drive or partition.
2. If so, is it worth my time to reorganize the project? It'll take some doing.
If I'm correct on all the above, I think it's important to throw out there to all editors that you should not rename your project all the time. As you archive older versions (to save old sequences and keep your project file size down), RENAME THEM, not the project you will continue to work on. This will make your media much easier to manage.
Thanks for any feedback on this.
Loch

Well, when you start a job, you hope that you'll be the one to finish it. Having been on both ends of this equation (getting the job taken away (or quitting) and completing a job someone else started) I understand your frustration.
As long as there are no duplicate file names for the media, you could simply copy them all to one folder and do a reconnect, however sometimes fcp will refuse to reconnect files. I've seen this happen a couple of times and I've been working in fcp since version 1. Never figured out what's going on. As long as everything was captured properly (logged and batch captured with "abort capture on dropped frames" and "create new clip on timecode break" enabled) you can always recapture if you have a problem.
My instinct is that if everything is working OK now, don't screw with it. Things could go seriously south.
Good point about not renaming projects.

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