In 2022, when I was helping with some overflow work for Eyebenders, LLC I was assigned the task of helping a client who restored old pinball machines. The issue he was having was that he had tens of thousands of images on his server that was using an app called Gallery 1. But this was an old app that was no longer supported. The company that created the Gallery app was now up to Gallery 3. So the images were having a lot of dead links.

I initially thought this would be a simple process of updating the app. However, the version of PHP the server had would not support Gallery 3. But if I updated the PHP then it would not support Gallery 1. So eventually figured out that the latest version of PHP and the old PHP would both support Gallery 2. So I updated everything to Gallery 2 and then was able to update to the latest PHP and update again to Gallery 3. Mind that I had to make sure each time that these tens of thousands of images migrated and remained intact every step I took.

This story is a good example of when something that seems like an easy task at first, can develop into something much more complex.