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A Baby Saved 'Toy Story 2' from Near Complete Deletion (2021)
- latexr 3mo agoThe title is stupid clickbait, and the story is interesting enough without it. Basically, all the files were deleted by mistake and the backups weren’t working, so they lost everything. Fortunately, a technical director had been working from home to care for her newborn, and thus had copies on her own computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_productio... (third paragraph)
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoSome previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330740 Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33344516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33344516 Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417037 How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798