No blog posts on front-end

I am playing around with a new template and menu structure on a local instance and tried to copy EB content from the live version to my local instance. I copied the DB tables #_easyblog_# and then re-installed the latest version of EB locally. Then I created a menu pointing to EB (posts) front page. On the back end everything looks fine. On the front - end the front page is opened but remains completely empty... Any suggestions