Why does FCE create so many folders

I have a dozen or so home movies all saved to two different hard drives. Each new project has FCE creating Autosave Vault, Capture Scratch, etc. folders in multiple locations. I would like to consolidate all of these on to one much larger hard drive, with a master Autosave Vault, Capture Scratch, etc. folder instead of so many. Is this possible?

FCE's normal behavior is to create certain folders specifically for each FCE project you create (including Capture Scratch & Autosave Vault).  You will notice that the folders have the same name(s) as your FCE project(s).    This is to help you manage the files associated with each individual project instead of piling them all together and mixing them up in a single Capture Scratch or Autosave Vault folder.
If you want to, you can create your own single folder to contain your captured clips.  However FCE will not automatically put them there.  You will have to copy them there after capturing/ingesting them in FCE because FCE will automatically put them in individual folders based on the name of the project within which you captured/ingested the clips.

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