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17. The Entirety Of Toy Story 2 Was Accidentally Deleted
Have you ever experienced the frustration of accidentally losing a really important document you were working on? Well you're not alone - as it turns out, a studio responsible for a multimillion dollar film did the exact same thing.
Early in 1998, an employee at Pixar accidentally ran a command on their computer that caused large chunks of Toy Story 2 to be deleted. They tried to salvage it but when they rebooted the system, 90% of the film was gone. And the movie was scheduled to come out in November of the following year.
Everyone was freaking out trying to figure out what to do when they remembered that Supervising Technical Director Galyn Susman, who recently gave birth to a son and was working for home, had a copy of everything they were doing. And thankfully for them, her copy hadn't updated since the crisis, so they were able to recover everything.
Just imagine the moment of crisis realising that all that work was completely gone. The film ended up grossing $500 million and making Disney hundreds of millions more in merchandising. Thank God for Galyn Susman.