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Shocking! Toy Story 2 Almost Never Happened!
perezhilton.com 1 week, 3 days agoWe had no idea one of the highest grossing animated features of all-time almost never made it out of the gate! When Pixar was nearly finished with Toy Story 2 , a nameless employee accidentally tripped some sort of self-destruct sequence on the company’s hard drive and they lost HUGE chunks of data -- which, in a computer generated film, is everything. The files containing Woody and a few of the films most memorable sequences were inadvertently deleted and the company feared they lost over a year’s worth of
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How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted... Except That One Person Made A Home Backup
techdirt.com 1 week, 6 days agoHere's a random story, found via Kottke , highlighting how Pixar came very close to losing a very large portion of Toy Story 2 , because someone did an rm * (non geek: "remove all" command). And that's when they realized that their backups hadn't been working for a month. Then, the technical director of the film noted that, because she wanted to see her family and kids, she had been making copies of the entire film and transferring it to her home computer. After a careful trip from the Pixar offices to her
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