anyone know how to trouble shoot this? only thing I could find online so far was… dropping the database & rebuilding from scratch

This is an error with the old experimental migrate — this type of errors can't happen with preview migrate, and there are always ways to recover from a bad migration. In older versions (with

steps.json

), the way to recover from these problems is indeed to delete the

_Migration

table and your migrations history, then migrate again.

thank you will try this next time!