Converting Album Catalogs to Elements 11 Catalogs

I am having difficulty converting my old Photoshop Album Catalogs (file extension .psa) to Elements 11.
Using "Manage Catalogs" from the file tab and then "Convert". I get the convert catalog screen. Using "find catalogs" I can browse to the folder where the .psa Catalogs are but the window does not list them as choices for converting.
I have seen this question many times in the forum but none of the proposed solutions have worked for me.
This is especially annoying as one time (and only one time) it did list them and I was able to succesfully convert some of them but I can't recreate this for the remaining catalogs.
I don't remember doing anyting different the one time it worked.

Thanks for trying to help, unfortunately it does not work.
I have 4 catalogs. Ticking the checkbox "show previously converted catalogs" lists the 3 that were succesfully converted, but not the 4th that has yet to be converted.
I tried tricking it by moving one converted catalog to another folder and renaming the unconverted catalog to the same name.
As expected this did not work, but it was worth a try.
The unconverted catalog is larger than than the others because it is my main one, but not that much larger than one of those successfully converted. (27kb vs 19kb). I don't think the size matters as it doesn't even list the catalog in the select window.
Any other ideas would be appreciated as Adobe chat was unwilling to help, claiming that "Album" was too old to support.
My opinion is that I needed support to get the brand new "Elements 11" to work properly not "Album", but they disagreed.
As I mentioned before, the real frustration stems from the fact that based on personal experience, I KNOW "Elements 11" can do this, I just don't know how.
The trusty old computer with "Album" died and the new one won't run it. I need some way of saving all the info previously entered.
Thanks for any help,

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