How to copy a player's backback content into another player

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#1

For the past week I’ve been trying to get a player’s backpack and move it into another players backpack. (move tools from one player to another)

I have two functions that run in the server, but it doesn’t seem to work. There are no errors in the output and I couldn’t find a solution on the forums. Does anyone have a different approach to this?

local function removeBackpackContent(player)
	local backpackItems = {}
	
	for _,v in pairs(player.character:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("Tool") then
			local itemClone = v:Clone()
			table.insert(backpackItems,itemClone)
		end
	end
	
	for _,v in pairs(player:WaitForChild("Backpack"):GetChildren()) do
		v:Destroy()
	end
	
	return backpackItems
end

local function addBackpackItems(player,backpackItems)
	local playerBackpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
	
	for _,v in pairs(backpackItems) do
		v.Parent = playerBackpack
	end
	
end
#2

I would think something like this would work better:

function giveitem(player, item)
    item.Parent = player.Backpack
end

function getbackpackitems(player, target)
    for i,v in pairs(player.Backpack:GetChildren()) do
        if v:IsA("Tool") then
            local clone = v:Clone()
            v:Destroy()
            giveitem(target, clone)
        end
    end
    for i,v in pairs(player.Character:GetChildren()) do
        if v:IsA("Tool") then
            local clone = v:Clone()
            v:Destroy()
            giveitem(target, clone)
        end
    end
end)
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#3

Thank you for the code segment! I did not know that tools that are equipped leaves the player backpack and goes inside the character.

I’ll go ahead and tweak my code and see what happens.

#4

You could do something like:

local function getItems(player)
	local tools = {}
	local backpack = player.Backpack
	
	for _,tool in ipairs(backpack:GetChildren()) do
		if tool:IsA("Tool") then
			table.insert(tools, tool)
		end
	end
	
	local equipped = player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool")
	
	if equipped then
		table.insert(tools, equipped)
	end
	
	return tools
end

local function parentTools(player, player2)
	local tools = getItems(player)
	
	for _,tool in ipairs(tools) do
		local clone = tool:Clone()
		
		clone.Parent = player2.Backpack
	end
end

This will get all tools from the player, if equipped or not, and it will clone it into the second player’s backpack.

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