How to save a players Gui and its descendants to a table correctly?

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i know that i can’t accually save instances but im trying to save the properties of a gui and the gui’s descendants’ properties as well.

but im not sure how to do it

this is in a serverscript

local player = players.LocalPlayer
local playerui = player.PlayerGui
local GUI = playerui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui")

local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("Song1")

local tries = 3
local dataloaded = false

local function set(plr)
	if dataloaded then
		local key = plr.UserId
		local count = 0

		local data = {}
		
		for i, Ui in ipairs(GUI:GetDescendants()) do
			table.insert(data,{
				["Parent"] = Ui.Parent;
				["name"] = Ui.Name;
				["Color"] = Ui.BackgroundColor3;
				["Value"] = Ui.Value;
				["transparancy"] = Ui.BackgroundTransparancy;
				["SoundId"] = Ui:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Sound").SoundId;
				
			})
		end
		
		
		local success, err

		repeat
			success, err = pcall(function()
				dataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
			end)

			count = count + 1
		until count >= tries or success

		if not success then
			warn("Data could not be set." .. tostring(err))

			return
		end
	else
		warn("Data has not been loaded. Do not attempt to set data when it has not been loaded.")

		return
	end
end

local function get(plr)
	local key = plr.UserId
	local count = 0

	local data

	local success, err

	repeat
		success, err = pcall(function()
			data = dataStore:GetAsync(key)
		end)

		count = count + 1
	until count >= tries or success

	if not success then
		warn("Failed to read data." .. tostring(err))

		plr:Kick("Failed to read data. Please rejoin the game.")

		return
	end

	if data then
		for i, saved in ipairs(data) do
			local loadedModel = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(saved.name):Clone()
			
			if loadedModel then
				
				loadedModel.BackgroundColor3 = (saved.Color)
				loadedModel.BackgroundTransparency = (saved.transparancy)
				loadedModel.Value = (saved.Value)
				loadedModel.SoundId = (saved.SoundId)
				loadedModel.Parent = (saved.Parent)
			else
				return
			end
		end
		
		
		dataloaded = true
		
		return data
	else
		dataloaded = true

		return {}
	end
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(get)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(set)

game:BindToClose(function()
	for i, plr in ipairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
		set(plr)
	end
end)

there are more than just values. when the resourced gets cloned from replicated storage, i need it and its descendants to load the saved data…

is there somthing i did wrong? thanks for the help

2

and when you play this game, youll see why

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3

Hey, would just like to tell you that you can’t save a Color3 value in a datastore however you can store a table containing R, G and B values and then convert it back into a Color3 value.

4

even if i did, how do you get it to load?