Converting a folder of values onto ProfileService

[ItsMeKlc]

Hello, I am very unexperienced when it comes to data store. I’m trying to utilize the Profile Service module as I’ve read good things about it.
Right now I have all of my items saved with IDs in a folder where the value represents the quantity of the item a player has. How is the best way to convert this onto Profile Service?

If I iterate through all of the items could I have issues with overwriting new items that I add later?

[Forummer]

As long as each item has a unique identifier you shouldn’t run into issues with overriding existing items.

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

I wrote a utility function for cases like this. See:

Saving Folder of Values?

I typically write a utility function for this called folderToDictionary which is, as the name implies, intended to pack the hierarchy of a folder into a dictionary. It’s recursive so it can handle arbitrary depths worth of values. Good for serialisation. local function folderToDictionary(folder) local dictionary = {} for _, object in ipairs(folder:GetChildren()) do if object:IsA("Folder") then dictionary[object.Name] = folderToDictionary(object) elseif objec…