How to delete a player's datastore

[gumixchan (Alex)]

Hello, I was wondering how to delete the Datastore data of an individual user.

I have the Datastore Editor plugin but I’m not sure how it works

[6Clu (clu)]

Hey, it really depends on how the datastore has been formed - in a typical database you can use RemoveAsync or set the datastore value to nil personally (its the same thing).

Inevitably the simplest way to remove data from the datastore, is to set the key (the defining piece of data which specifies each player) to nil and then saving these changes in whatever way its originally done. The moment the data is set to nil, the garbage disposal will act to remove the data key entirely because no data is associated with such key anymore.

Additionally, if you use a standard datastore structure like so, you can use RemoveAsync()

local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore("My_Datastore")
local success, error = pcall(function()
   return DS:RemoveAsync("Player_Key")
end)
if not success then
   console.warn(error)
end

This code highlights the standard methodology.