FAQ 1.10 not helping to recover reports

[Paul Stansell]

Hello,

I recently changed from gnucash-1.8.7 to gnucash-1.8.11 (due to an
upgrade from fedora1 to fedora3) and now I can't see any of my old reports
in gnucash.

I am aware of the question 1.10 in the FAQ which explains how to rename a 
data file and recover it's reports, but it's not working for me in this 
case.

If I start afresh with:

  rm -rf ~/.gnucash
  gnucash ~/accounts/personal/money.xac
    # save and exit

As expected, no reports were displayed and this does creates a new 
~/.gnucash directory with the appropriate file in

  ~/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Fadmin%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac

This has exactly the same name as that in my old saved ~/.gnucash.safe
directory so I copy the old one over the new one:

  cp ~/.gnucash.safe/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac \
    ~/.gnucash/books/.

But restarting "gnucash ~/accounts/personal/money.xac" still shows me no
reports.  On exiting the file
~/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac is now
very different from the original one but it still seems to contain lots of
report information which is not used or displayed.

The file name in ~/.gnome/GnuCash has not changed so I shouldn't need to 
edit that.

Can anyone tell me how to get my old reports back?

Thanks,

Paul Stansell