Clean Audio Folder confusion

I realize I'm living in the past, but I have Sonar Producer v 8.5, and also have a VERY early version of Sonar, v 2.2, and despite its age, I don't want to find clips missing from old projects should I import them. So I'm paranoid about the Clean Audio Folders option. When I'm in Sonar 8.5 and select this option, even though I browse to a specific directory, it searches my whole hard drive. There is an option to allow it to scan folders BELOW the directory you select, but why is it scanning  ABOVE the current directory, all the way back to the root?
 
First of all, is there a way to actually confine the search and make Sonar know you really really really only want it scan the directory you chose and BELOW? It makes a task that should take a few minutes take all day.
 
Second, if there is no way to stop Sonar from checking the whole drive, can I at least be certain my "clean" list in v.8.5 won't include files actively used by the older version?
 
Thanks for any help!
 
 

this tool needs an update bad. as does the CWAF tool.
to be honest, if I were you, I bounce all my tracks using the "Bounce to clips" feature.
this loosens up the load of little stragglers.
once your tracks are all one (not little pieces of clips) use the audio clean folder tool.
it works, sometimes its slow as pie, but it works.
then delete everything listed. I typically don't even read the list anymore because I've gotten to the point where I know exactly what is going to be on that list. (my clip portions that I've already "bounced to clips".)
 
get in the habit of good house cleaning techniques. this will help in the end.
good house cleaning: label all your tracks/clips so they are in order and listed with definition so you know exactly what IS what.
im so Anel, I number my tracks so they will order in my audio folder:
01.Kick
02.Snare
03.Hi Hat
and so on, and so on, exc, exc.

Yes, it makes perfect sense.
Do a save as to a new folder, copy all audio across and delete the original in Windows
 
It's a great way to tidy up

chuckebaby, don't get me wrong... I LOVE Sonar. It has opened up worlds of creativity for me and is the best music tool I've ever owned. But I have had less then stellar experiences with cakewalk support. Example: Once upon a time I informed cakewalk of a synchronization flaw in my Sonar 8.5. I showed them a clear simple case with a short example project. I setup a session-drummer track with snare, kick, and mix of all other drums routed to 3 separate tracks, along with a simple guitar chord progression on a 4th. using the loop tool to continually play a 2 bar sequence, you could hear that over the course of only a minute you'd hear the various drum tracks slowly drifting apart in time, and soon it was an unusable mess. This was a serious problem that happens in more important circumstances, but the short loop was a simple way to illustrate the issue. I even offered programming suggestions for how they might fix the problem.
 
So over the course of several years and a dozen complaints reporting this issue, all I got was the typical "customer is doing something wrong" responses. Then there was no reasonable way to continue the same conversation with the same rep for followup. Finally after about 6 years I got one rep to actually load my example into an 8.5 setup, and finally they confirmed that i was right... there was a sync problem. They also confirmed it did not happen with the more recent version, and told that unfortunately mine was now several years beyond the time frame of making corrections or bug fixes. Sorry, that's not what I call good support. This software was a major investment for me, and had they just taken the time to try my example when first reported, it might have been corrected as a bug fix.

There are other examples, and this is "clean audio folder" is one. A tool to clean up a specific audio folder with an option to focus on the folder(s) selected is not only reasonable, but an option I think would in fact please everyone, and hurt no one