The development of Toy Story 2 was famously chaotic, starting as a low-budget direct-to-video project before Disney upgraded it to a theatrical release. During production, an animator accidentally ran a root command that rapidly deleted about 90 percent of the film's rendered files from the main servers. The studio's backup system had silently failed a month prior. It was only reversed because the supervising technical director had a relatively recent copy on her home computer while on maternity