Mass data store?

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Hello, I’m working on a game and at this moment in time, I’m struggling to create an efficient DataStore.
As shown in the image below - As players progress through the game, they will be able to capture creatures. Each time a new one is captured, a new Folder is added. Now I’m wondering how would I be able to DataStore all the new data recorded in ‘inCatalog’, ‘inParty’, and ‘inStorage’ as the Player Progresses?

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Take a look at these function. getTableForm gets all the data from a folder and it’s descendants then puts it into a savable form. parseData takes that data and puts it back into its folder and value form. If you were to call getTableForm on EvolytData and saved the result you could then call parseData with EvolytData and the data again to generate the folders.

function parseData(parent, data)
	if (data["obj"] == nil) then
		return;
	end
	local contents = data["content"];
	local object = Instance.new(data["obj"], parent);
	object.Name = data["name"];
	
	if (data["value"]) then
		object.Value = data["value"];
	end
	if (contents ~= {}) then
		--print(http:JSONEncode(contents));
		for i,v in ipairs(contents) do
			local newTable = {obj=v.obj,content=v["content"],name=v.name};
			if (v.value) then
				newTable["value"] = v.value;
			end
			parseData(object, newTable);
		end
	end
	return object;
end

function getTableForm(parent)
	local newData = {["obj"]=parent.ClassName,["name"]=parent.Name};
	local newContent = {};
	
	if (#parent:GetChildren() > 0) then
		for i,v in ipairs(parent:GetChildren()) do
			local tForm = getTableForm(v);
			table.insert(newContent, tForm);
		end
		if (parent.ClassName ~= "Folder") then
			newData["value"] = parent.Value;
		end
		newData["content"] = newContent;
		return newData;
	else
		if (parent.ClassName ~= "Folder") then
			newData["value"] = parent.Value;
		end
		newData["content"] = newContent;
		return newData;
	end
end
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Here is my code that I use for transferring data between folders and tables:

-- Converting a folder to table form
function IterateThroughFolder(Folder)
	local Table = {}
	for i,v in pairs(Folder:GetChildren()) do
		if #v:GetChildren() == 0 then
			Table[v.Name] = v.Value
		else
			Table[v.Name] = IterateThroughFolder(v)
		end
	end	
	return Table
end

-- Converting a table to folder form

function TableToFolder(Table, Parent)
	for i,v in pairs(Table) do
		if typeof(v) ~= "table" then
			local T = CapitalFirst(typeof(v))
			if T == "BooleanValue" then
				T = "BoolValue"
			end
			local Value =  Instance.new(T)
			Value.Name = i
			Value.Parent = Parent
			Value.Value = v
		else
			local F = Instance.new("Folder")
			F.Parent = Parent
			F.Name = i
			TableToFolder(v, F)
		end
	end
	return Parent
end
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