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The woman who saved Toy Story 2 from deletion

• WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
  A mistaken command— /bin/rm -r -f * inputted by one of the animators on the root folder and the movie started deleting Galyn Susman ... was working from home she had a full backup¹ on her home computer Galyn’s home computer ... in 1998 ... stored the data for the feature film ... [it] required 8 people ... to help carry her computer from her Volvo in the parking lot, to Pixar's studio ¹[her computer contained] the character database, the foundational code and models for the characters... They still had to manually review and restore over 100,000 files
  • luotuoshangdui 1y ago
    It's amazing that they allowed working from home in 1998 and downloading all the company's assets to a home computer.
    • WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
      Yes except for the downloading part because it all traveled via physical media. She took it home with her.
• brcmthrowaway 1y ago
  In the end, she was laid off too. If you aren't working on your resume/portfolio this weekend, what the hell are you even doing?
  • shamirallibhai 1y ago
    this is the takeaway!