Issues with DataStore

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#1

Hello, Developers.

So I have a DataStore system that uses a pcall and SetAsync to retrieve Data. For some reason, sometimes when the player joins the game, their data is all 0, or doesn’t load properly (like some of it loads and some of it doesn’t). Sometimes it fixes itself if you rejoin, but sometimes it doesn’t. There’s no errors in the output or anything. Here is my code:

module.LoadData = function(player, PlayerFolder)
	
	local success, result, err = pcall(PlayerData.GetAsync, PlayerData, player.UserId)
	
	if not success then
		warn(err)
		game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").RemoteEvents.WarnDatastore:FireClient(player, err)
		table.insert(DataErrors, player.Name)
		return
	end
	
	if result then
		PlayerFolder.DataId.Value = result.DataId
		PlayerFolder.Credits.Value = result.Credits
		PlayerFolder.Wins.Value = result.Wins
		PlayerFolder.Level.Value = result.Level
		PlayerFolder.Experience.Value = result.Exp
		
		for i,v in pairs(result.Codes) do
			local t = Instance.new("BoolValue")
			t.Name = v
			t.Parent = PlayerFolder.Codes
		end
		
		for i,v in pairs(result.Backpack) do
			local t = Instance.new("BoolValue")
			t.Name = v
			t.Parent = PlayerFolder.Backpack
		end
		
	else
		PlayerFolder.Credits.Value = 0
		PlayerFolder.Wins.Value = 0
		PlayerFolder.DataId.Value = 0
		PlayerFolder.Level.Value = 1
	end
	
end
#2

I guess this is a common and known bug. Not that long ago there were many discussions about how the DataStores are an unreliable method of saving data, and that doing it as the wiki tells you to may lead to some data losses.

I suggest you to check out DataStore2 if you haven’t already:

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