One of his co-workers had issued an over-reaching command to the studio's server to try to fix a simple, benign problem, but instead, ended up recursively deleting large chunks of the movie itselt - approximately two months worth of work. I grabbed the phone… "unplug the machine!” Then we saw sequences start to vanish as well and we were like, “Oh my god” He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looked again and it had four files. was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. ![]() ![]() The former Chief Technical Officer of Pixar, Oren Jacob, recounts the ordeal: It's a movie studio's worst nightmare losing a movie in development that's cost hundreds of man hours and a significant amount more in financial terms, but that's exactly what happened to the guys at Pixar who were working on the sequel to the 90s hit, Toy Story.
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