Data Store Support

[Ur_Dadeyyyyyy (Kanye_North)]

Hello!

I was wondering if there was a way to delete all of the data stores created under my game.

Let me know if you have ideas

[thyswedishviking (SwedishAeternum)]

You can’t directly delete an actual datastore,

once called and created via :GetDataStore("DataStoreName") it cannot be deleted by a script. You can remove all the data from it, and replace DataStoreName with the name of another datastore to create a new one.

[thyswedishviking (SwedishAeternum)]

If you do want to remove the data from All Datastores, you can run this. I believe it should also work in cmd line

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local Success, DataStorePages = pcall(function()
	return DataStoreService:ListDataStoresAsync()
end)
if not Success then return end

local DataStores = {}
while task.wait() do
	
	local DataStorePage = DataStorePages:GetCurrentPage()
	
	for _, DataStore in pairs(DataStorePage) do
		table.insert(DataStores, DataStore.DataStoreName)
	end
	
	if DataStorePages.IsFinished then break else DataStorePages:AdvanceToNextPageAsync() end
	
end

for _, DataStoreName in ipairs(DataStores) do
	
	local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore(DataStoreName)
	
	local Success, Pages = pcall(function()
		return DataStore:ListKeysAsync()
	end)
	
	if not Success then warn("Timeout") continue end
	
	while task.wait() do
		
		local Items = Pages:GetCurrentPage()
		
		for _, Data in ipairs(Items) do			
			local Key = Data.KeyName
			DataStore:RemoveAsync(Key)
			
		end
		
		if Pages.IsFinished then break else Pages:AdvanceToNextPageAsync() end
		
	end
	
end

Adapted from:

How Can I Get All Keys of a DataStore in Table Form?

Thanks, It’s Working Quite Good Now. One thing though. You have to run it multiple times cause of it overloading the DataStores. How could I fix this? Code: local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService") local Success, DataStorePages = pcall(function() return DataStoreService:ListDataStoresAsync() end) if not Success then return end -- Gets Data Store Names: local DataStoreNames = {} while task.wait() do local DataStorePage = DataStorePages:GetCurrentPage() for _, Da…

Note, this will not delete the datastore, that’s not possible, but it’ll remove the data from all datastores

[tDaymon (Daymon)]

To build off this, there’s no convenience method for wiping all the keys in a datastore either. You have to do something like this:

function deleteAllKeys(datastore)
  local pages = datastore:ListKeysAsync()
  repeat
    for key, _ in pairs(pages:GetCurrentPage()) do
      datastore:RemoveAsync(key)
    end
    pages:AdvanceToNextPageAsync()
  until pages.IsFinished
end

e: looks like he beat me to the punch lol

[Ur_Dadeyyyyyy (Kanye_North)]

@tDaymon @thyswedishviking

Thank you both

[thyswedishviking (SwedishAeternum)]

No worries, glad I could help. Have a blessed rest of your day man! God bless