Older user

[Murray]

Hi,
After years of problem free use of version 1.8.12, I was forced to 
upgrade to ver 2.2.9 by a hardware failure(smoke, end of month, 
swearing, etc., I'm sure you understand).
I only have the backups of my accounts left.
The new version gives an error when I try to read them.
Is there a way I can access my backups from the new version?
I have rebuilt using Fedora 10.

Thanks,
Murray

p.s. I was very happy with GNUCASH