"Photos" shows only ~ 5% of my photos. Help!

This is in reference to the 2nd item at top of Library tab, "Photos," just below "Projects," and above "Places." Of my 21,000+ photos, 697 show up when clicking Photos. The 697 are unrelated. Some are old; some are new. Some have been edited; others have not. All 21,000+ photos are actually in the library, and can be called up with Smart Albums, and everything else works everywhere. I can find no way to force Aperture to display the rest of the photos with this option, which means I have to create a smart album every time I want to search for a photo. Is there some kind of fix? It took me more than a person-month of work to migrate from iPhoto + Keyword Manager over to Aperture since Aperture doesn't know how to migrate hierarchical keywords, and I have more than 2000 of them, so starting over is not an option.

Always best to start a new thread. Posting to an answered thread is mildly unhelpful.
In the meantime:
Don't know what you mean when you say "Selected the photos" above.
Create a Smart Album. Because it is a Smart Album, it will have search criteria listed in the Filter HUD. Bring up the Filter HUD by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the right end of the line showing the title of the Smart Album in your Library tab of the Inspector.
Leave this Filter HUD open.
Click "Photos" at the top of the Library tab of the Inspector.
Clear all of the Rules shown in the Filter HUD.
Close the Filter HUD.
This should remove the hidden filter which is (likely) being applied to your Photos container.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger who still can't tell right from left.

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