Is it possible to permanently delete a datastore?

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Hello. I’ve had my plently share of datastores in my roblox games, and I’ve reached a certain wallblock when trying to delete datastores permanently, by that I mean deleting it entirely, getting rid of all keys and even from it displaying. I’m stuck at the “getting rid of itself” part though.

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Random datastores that I wanted to wipe, since the game used to be mostly just a console playground back then.

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There might be a better method but you could run:

local dataStore = -- Insert datastore
local allKeyPages = dataStore:ListKeysAsync()

while allKeyPages.IsFinished == false do
	local keyPage = allKeyPages:GetCurrentPage()

	for key, value in keyPage do
		local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
			dataStore:RemoveAsync(key)
		end)
		
		if not success then warn("Remove Async Fail!", errorMessage) end
		
		task.wait(0.5) -- Prevent rate limit
	end
	
	allKeyPages:AdvanceToNextPageAysnc()
end

Reference:
Roblox Docs - DataStores - :ListKeysAsync()

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This works, but I have a datastore with 11k total keys and this just won’t do it. Around 20~ mins per 1k keys removed.

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I’m not sure if there’s an easier solution but you can probably lower the wait a bit without getting rate limited. Maybe you can do 0.1 seconds.