Mike,

There have been many problems reported of Aperture’s trash not showing the photos that are in there. Often this is cleaned up by repairing the database (check the FAQ if you don’t know how to do that), but not always. It’s a good first step though.

However the title of this post says “Aperture trash and REJECTED files”… when you reject a photo, it does NOT go into the trash; it is simply marked as rejected and hidden from view until you ask Aperture to show rejected files in your project, like this: [screenshot]. Is that what you’re looking for?