Time Capsule can't find data

Hi
I recently moved house and with it my time capsule, the problem is I can no longer find the data I held on my Time Capsules hard drive (primarily Movies and Photos). It's a 1TB TC, showing free space of 57GB so I believe the data is there but I just can't see it.
Previously I would just go to Finder > Time Capsule > Data and it was there, the same folder exists now but it appears to be empty.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul

Turn on the guest account..
Make sure you connect by ethernet..
Press reset and try the setup again.
Reset will not delete files.. you have to deliberately erase them.

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