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When one Pixar employee accidentally deleted Toy Story 2

Creative Bloq ·Georgia Coggan·4 days ago
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Toy Story 5 rumours are flying so it's the perfect time to take a second to remember the stomach-dropping story of how Toy Story 2 almost got completely deleted during the final edit stage. When I say completely deleted, I mean 90% of the film actually did get erased, almost throwing the project into complete disarray. But how could this happen? Well, a Pixar employee accidentally ran a delete command on the film's servers, and horrified witnesses could only watch as a folder dropped form 40 files to just four files in seconds. Because Pixar's backup servers had been failing for a month, there was no recovery option. It seemed all was lost. Years of work down the pan. (Image credit: Disney Pixar) But then a miracle happened (or just an organised employee). Technical director Galyn Susman was on maternity leave, working from home with her newborn.…

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