diff --git a/shared.nim b/shared.nim
index 7276958..e218131 100644
--- a/shared.nim
+++ b/shared.nim
@@ -37,45 +37,16 @@ proc hasCommas*(filename: string):bool =
 
 proc getAskPassPath*(): string =
   var askPassPath: string
-  if detectOs(Fedora):
-    if fileExists("/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"
-    else:
-      writeErrorToLog("No ssh-askpass binary found. Please run 'dnf install openssh-askpass'")
-      askPassPath = ""
-  elif detectOs(Ubuntu):
-    if fileExists("/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"
-    else:
-      writeErrorToLog("No ssh-askpass binary found. Please run 'sudo apt install ssh-askpass-gnome'.")
-      askPassPath = ""
-  #save this for a musl build.
-  #[elif detectOs(Alpine):
-    if fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"
-    else:
-      writeErrorToLog("No ssh-askpass binary found. Please run 'apk add gtk-ssh-askpass'.")
-      askPassPath = ""]#
-  elif detectOs(ArchLinux):
-    if fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"
-    else:
-      writeErrorToLog("No ssh-askpass binary found. Please run 'pacman -S x11-ssh-askpass', or similar.")
-      askPassPath = ""
-  elif detectOs(Linux):
-    if fileExists("/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"
-    elif fileExists("/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"
-    elif fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"
-    elif fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"):
-      askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"
-    else:
-      writeErrorToLog("No ssh-askpass binary found. Please install an ssh-askpass package for your distro, and let us know if EZ-Bkup still can't detect it's location.")
-      askPassPath = ""
+  
+  if fileExists("/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"):
+    askPassPath = "/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass"
+  elif fileExists("/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"):
+    askPassPath = "/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass"
+  elif fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"):
+    askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/gtk-ssh-askpass"
+  elif fileExists("/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"):
+    askPassPath = "/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass"
   else:
-    writeErrorToLog("Your OS does not appear to be supported at this time. If you are getting this error and you are using a x86_64 gnu libc-based linux distribution please report this issue. Please include the path to your ssh-askpass binary, as well.")
     askPassPath = ""
   
   return askPassPath
diff --git a/views/routine_list.nim b/views/routine_list.nim
index af18d4b..360666a 100644
--- a/views/routine_list.nim
+++ b/views/routine_list.nim
@@ -4,28 +4,71 @@ EZ-Bkup is released under the General Public License 3.0.
 See COPYING or <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/> for details.]#
 
 import owlkettle
-import std/osproc, std/os
-#import asynctools
-#import threadpool
+import std/osproc, std/os, std/logging
 import edit_routine_dialog
 import "../models/routine", "../shared"
 
 viewable RoutineList:
-  ## Displays a list of routines
-  routineModel: RoutineModel ## Model of all routines
+  routineModel: RoutineModel
   runStatus: string
-  rsyncRun: tuple[output: string, exitCode: int]
 
   proc changed(state: bool)
 
 var thread: Thread[RoutineListState]
-#var rsyncRun: tuple[output: string, exitCode: int]
 
-proc rsyncThread(list: RoutineListState, rsyncCommand: string) {.thread.} =
-  while true:
-    list.rsyncRun = execCmdEx(rsyncCommand)
-    list.redrawFromThread()
-    sleep(1000)
+proc rsyncThread(list: RoutineListState) {.thread.} =
+
+  let appPath = getHomeDir() & ".ez-bkup"
+
+  if not dirExists(appPath):
+    createDir(appPath)
+
+  var logger = newFileLogger(appPath & "/errors.log")
+  
+  #i'm not sure if using threadvar here is needed, but doing it just in case. :)
+  var rsyncRunCmd {.threadvar.}: string
+  var rsyncRun {.threadvar.}: tuple[output: string, exitCode: int]
+
+  var rsyncErrors: seq[string]
+  var routineRunCount: int
+  routineRunCount = 0
+  for routine in list.routineModel.routineSeq():
+    #using this as "selected" for now.
+    if routine.selByDef == true:
+      #skip routines that don't have at least one source and one destination.
+      if routine.sources.len != 0 and routine.destinations.len != 0:
+        list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFE97B\" size=\"large\">Horses, please to be holding...</span>"
+        routineRuncount += 1
+        for source in routine.sources:
+          for destination in routine.destinations:
+            #per source/dest compbo msgs still don't seem to be working right. 
+            #maybe it requires a separate thread per combo? deprioritized.
+            #list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFE97B\" size=\"large\">Bkup " & source & " to " & destination & "...</span>"
+            #try without requiring superuser privs by default.
+            rsyncRunCmd = "rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination
+            rsyncRun = execCmdEx(rsyncRunCmd)
+            if rsyncRun.exitCode != 0:
+              #handle permission denied error.
+              if rsyncRun.exitCode == 23:
+                rsyncRun.exitCode = 0
+                if getAskPassPath() == "":
+                  let err = "No ssh-askpass binary found. Please install an ssh-askpass package for your distro, and let us know if EZ-Bkup still can't detect it's location."
+                  rsyncErrors.add(err)
+                else:
+                  rsyncRunCmd = "SUDO_ASKPASS=" & getAskPassPath() & " sudo -A rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination                  
+                  rsyncRun = execCmdEx(rsyncRunCmd)
+                  if rsyncRun.exitCode != 0:
+                    rsyncErrors.add("EZ-Bkup's rsync process(es) returned error (" & $rsyncRun.output & ") while attempting to back up " & source & " to " & destination)
+  if rsyncErrors.len > 0:
+    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#ff6b6b\" size=\"large\">Error! Please see the log at ~/.ez-bkup/errors.log</span>"
+    for err in rsyncErrors:
+      logger.log(lvlError, err)
+  elif routineRunCount == 0:
+    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFA651\" size=\"large\">Meh. No Bkup Routines were run.</span>"
+  else:
+    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#6fffa3\" size=\"large\">Bkup Complete!</span>"              
+
+  list.redrawFromThread()
 
 method view(list: RoutineListState): Widget {.locks: "unknown".} =
   result = gui:    
@@ -149,52 +192,8 @@ method view(list: RoutineListState): Widget {.locks: "unknown".} =
                   xAlign = 0 
                   useMarkup = true         
               proc clicked() =
-                list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFE97B\" size=\"large\">Running Bkup...</span>"
-                #var rsyncRun: tuple[output: string, exitCode: int]
-                var rsyncErrors: seq[string]
-                var routineRunCount = 0
-                for routine in list.routineModel.routineSeq():
-                  #using this as "selected" for now.
-                  if routine.selByDef == true:
-                    #skip routines that don't have at least one source and one destination.
-                    if routine.sources.len != 0 and routine.destinations.len != 0:
-                      routineRuncount += 1
-                      for source in routine.sources:
-                        for destination in routine.destinations:
-                          list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFE97B\" size=\"large\">Bkup " & source & " to " & destination & "...</span>"
-                          #try without requiring superuser privs by default.
-                          #rsyncRun = execCmdEx("rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination)
-                          let rsyncRunCmd = "rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination
-                          #let rsyncThreadProcCall = rsyncThread(rsyncRunCmd)
-                          createThread(thread, rsyncThread(list, rsyncRunCmd), list)
-                          #createThread(thread, rsyncThreadProcCall, list)
-                          #rsyncRun = spawn execCmdEx("rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination)
-                          #sync()
-                          #rsyncRun = await asynctools.execProcess("rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination)
-                          if list.rsyncRun.exitCode != 0:
-                            #handle permission denied error.
-                            if list.rsyncRun.exitCode == 23:
-                              let rsyncRunCmd = "SUDO_ASKPASS=" & getAskPassPath() & " sudo -A rsync -aq " & source & " " & destination
-                              #rsyncRun = execCmdEx(rsyncRunCmd)
-                              #rsyncRun = spawn execCmdEx(rsyncRunCmd)
-                              #sync()
-                              createThread(thread, rsyncThread(rsyncRunCmd), list)
-                              #rsyncRun = await asynctools.execProcess(rsyncRunCmd)
-                              if list.rsyncRun.exitCode != 0:
-                                rsyncErrors.add("EZ-Bkup's rsync process(es) returned error (" & $rsyncRun.output & ") while attempting to back up " & source & " to " & destination)
-                            else:
-                              rsyncErrors.add("EZ-Bkup's rsync process(es) returned error (" & $rsyncRun.output & ") while attempting to back up " & source & " to " & destination)
-                #makes the "Bkup Complete" msg below wait on the rsyncRun to finish.
-                if list.rsyncRun.exitCode == 1 or list.rsyncRun.exitCode == 0:
-                  if rsyncErrors.len > 0:
-                    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#ff6b6b\" size=\"large\">Error! Please see the log at ~/.ez-bkup/errors.log</span>"
-                    for err in rsyncErrors:
-                      writeErrorToLog(err)
-                      echo err  
-                  elif routineRunCount == 0:
-                    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFA651\" size=\"large\">Meh. No Bkup Routines were run.</span>"
-                  else:
-                    list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#6fffa3\" size=\"large\">Bkup Complete!</span>"              
+                #list.runStatus = "<span color=\"#FFE97B\" size=\"large\">Running Bkup...</span>"
+                createThread(thread, rsyncThread, list)                                
         else:
           Box {.expand: false.}:
             orient = OrientY