About Folders, Projects and Albums

I set up a Folder named "X" that contains a particular Project "Xx". Within that Project there are different Albums "Xxa...z". Clicking on the Folder should give me an overview of all the versions placed in the underlying Project and its Albums. But it does not. Only a few versions appear. I created some New Projects within that particular Folder and imported a number of different files in those new projects. None of the imported files show up when selecting the corresponding Folder. I have other Folders holding more Projects and Albums with no problems at all. What could there be done to resolve that one issue with Folder "X"?

Thank you to respond. There were no errant search criteria in that folder. Meanwhile I resolved the issue by creating a new folder in the root and dragging the projects and albums to it. After that I deleted the folder that turned out to be corrupted (?) I still don't know what went wrong, but the new folder works out fine.

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