"child is not a valid member of parent", even though child still exists inside parent

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#1

i recently made a global cooldown for tools, which never resets when player character is reset. while i did that, i also made a visual gui that indicates current tool cooling down with a timer
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everything was fine, until when i wrote a script that copies template to player’s cooldownfolder (where stores all tools’ cooldowns) and tested it, it gave me this error, “child is not a valid member of parent”,


although all children’s were existing inside the object, and all of the scripts i wrote were really fine
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the source of error was from a local script, at line 13
whats the best solution to fix this annoying bug?

#3

the obj was inside recorded video, please watch fully

#4

I don’t see where OnCooldownAdded is called. Could you point it out to me please?

#5 
local CooldownFolder = Player:WaitForChild("CooldownFolder")

if #CooldownFolder:GetChildren() > 0 then
	for _, v in pairs(CooldownFolder:GetChildren()) do
		OnCooldownAdded(v)
	end
end

CooldownFolder.ChildAdded:Connect(OnCooldownAdded)
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#6

Maybe replace line 13 with this?

TemplateClone.BackgroundColor3 = Obj:WaitForChild("Color").Value
#7

that would not work, i did test it with both WaitForChild() and FindFirstChild(), and it returned with nil value

#8

What were the results from using waitForChild?

#9

it ended up like that, although children still existed inside object (like what i said before)

#10

turns out there was already a thread talking about the same problem

and the way to fix it is to add wait()

i should have dug into it more :moyai: