I closed the client, properly, and it crashed.  After opening it again the funds once again show.  I never had any doubt they were there but this experience is very concerning.  The client crashes randomly all the time and even when I try to close it normally it still freezes and crashes.  I've been reading a lot about BTS lately and really see the potential.  It's just disappointing that the UI is so bulky and buggy.  I don't see the average person putting up with the client as is.  A light wallet cannot come fast enough.

Thanks for the advice, liondani.

The client crashed and when I loaded it up again my funds are once again not visible...Someone please help me figure out what's going on.  Here's a picture of my dashboard/transactions.

http://i.imgur.com/kNyuMBn.jpg

The client is now completely synched and still no balance showing.  I'm really new to all this, what am I doing wrong? What is going on? Someone help please?

TIMESTAMP           BLOCK     FROM                TO                  AMOUNT                  MEMO                                        FEE                 ID     
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2015-02-15T15:44:00 1796828   btsbull             codeman             100.00000 BTS           to register your account                    0.10000 BTS         841371cf
2015-02-15T18:47:49 1797890   codeman             ASK-87b1b701        11.83430 BTS            sell BTS @ 0.008450028223 USD / BTS         0.50000 BTS         55ac0757
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|2015-02-15T18:48:00 1797891   ASK-87b1b701        MARKET              11.83430 BTS            fill ask @ 0.008450028223 USD / BTS         0.00000 BTS         VIRTUAL |
|                              ASK-87b1b701        codeman             0.1000 USD              ask proceeds @ 0.008450028223 USD / BTS                                 |
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2015-02-16T16:32:50 1805497   BTS6tL52BShHadNn... codeman             0.00099400 BTC                                                      0.00000 BTS         67cb1d5b
2015-02-16T16:57:09 1805643   codeman             codeman             87.16570 BTS            vote_all                                    0.50000 BTS         fe5f053a
2015-02-16T16:58:46 1805653   codeman             codeman             86.66570 BTS            vote_recommended                            0.50000 BTS         ec4b2468
2015-02-16T17:04:20 1805686   BTS6tL52BShHadNn... codeman             0.11817929 BTC                                                      0.00000 BTS         c2c275db

I got my refund from shapeshift and bought a little BitBTC.  After the BitBTC was added then everything else showed up. It literally said 0.0 under Balances now it's .000994 BTC/87.6657 BTS/0.1 USD.  I have no idea what happened but it seems to be good now.  I'm just a little worried now about putting a real amount in because disappearing funds is not cool.

Now messages are popping up that say Transaction not found with this

[email protected]:30:19939
○ [email protected]:36:2428
○ [email protected]:34:21761
○ app.js:32:27363
○ [email protected]:5:42817
○ [email protected]:5:42905
○ app.js:6:9620
○ app.js:9:30946
○ [email protected]:6:609
○ [email protected]:5:92894
○ [email protected]:5:64216
○ app.js:5:85324
○ [email protected]:9:80668
○ app.js:9:80935
○ [email protected]:6:82896
○ app.js:9:62142
○ [email protected]:6:45333
○ app.js:6:45505
○ [email protected]:6:81532
○ [email protected]:6:80046
○ [email protected]:6:81806
○ app.js:6:46470
○ [email protected]:3:14328
○ [email protected]:3:11078
10 assert_exception: Assert Exception
record.valid(): Transaction not found!
    {}
    bitshares  blockchain_api.cpp:297 bts::client::detail::client_impl::blockchain_get_transaction

    {"transaction_id_prefix":"","exact":false}
    bitshares  blockchain_api.cpp:299 bts::client::detail::client_impl::blockchain_get_transaction

    {}
    bitshares  common_api_client.cpp:1671 bts::rpc_stubs::common_api_client::blockchain_get_transaction

Yes that seems to be the case.

Last night I decided to dive into BTS at the exact wrong time.  I used shapeshift to send BTC to BTS... but of course that didn't go through because of BTer. 
So someone sent me 100 BTS.  I was just playing around to see how it works and bought .1 bitUSD with that.  Last night I held 87.6 BTS and .1 BitUSD.  I just got up and looked and now there's nothing.  I know it's pretty much nothing value-wise but I just want to understand what happened?

The transaction to me is in Block # 1796828
The transfer to .1 BitUSD is in Block # 1797890

How long does registration take to show up? I did it through faucet.bitchares and it's been a while

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