Backups and recovery

[Alaric]

I have a display problem which has involved re-installing several times. 
  In the past I could open gnucash and open my accounts by using 'open' 
and selecting the name of the account such as AWW15.  When I do this now 
the chart of accounts comes up with the correct balances but none of the 
registers have any information. In addition to the file name, all the 
archive and log files are in the backup copy.

	I need to recover this if possible as I need to keep the ledger for the 
year as a record of the year's transactions.

	Can anyone suggest what I should do?

Regards,

Alaric