In Toy Story 4 (2019), a car has the licence plate "RMRF97". In 1997, someone at Pixar accidentally typed “rm -r -f “, deleting the entire Toy Story 2 movie from the Pixar database. Fortunately, the film's supervising technical director had a backup copy at home, and the movie was restored.

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image showing In Toy Story 4 (2019), a car has the licence plate "RMRF97". In 1997, someone at Pixar accidentally typed “rm -r -f “, deleting the entire Toy Story 2 movie from the Pixar database. Fortunately, the film's supervising technical director had a backup copy at home, and the movie was restored.

dayankuo234 on March 9th, 2021 at 00:16 UTC »

I remember that story. they said that when they were transporting the backup to the office, the spaced pillows along each side of the computer, and they drove at like 5-10 miles per hour.

bfcostello on March 9th, 2021 at 01:40 UTC »

Imagine making a mistake in work of that magnitude.

Sexycoed1972 on March 9th, 2021 at 03:14 UTC »

"WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE THAT LEVER???!!!"