Hi,

Its a miracle but after days of struggling I have managed to solve it a couple of minutes ago.

FWIW in my home folder there was a folder .electrum and .electrum-xvg and they are both being used by the Electrum XVG software. Strangely enough the executable is in the first and the data is in the second. Putting newer code in the first, I managed to start the Electrum XVG client, but in my seed once again and have access to my coins.

Regards,
iodisciple