I’m looking for a way to DataStore all contents within the ‘PlayerData’ folder -
Notably new Folders will be added / removed from the Folder during Gameplay and these will also need to Save - I’ve had a method in the past of doing this:
I’m trying to achieve this method again - However I’m having no luck in getting the code to work?
Thank you. ^^
When I datastore a lot of things, i use tables. You can also save tables inside of tables.
For example, create a table for the Player Data and have other tables for the the other data and save that inside of the Player Data table. Let me show you an example:
(I am gonna show you how to save the _Misc data, but the other data such as Inventory, Storage, Party, etc…would be the same. Remember that you can save multiple tables inside of a table
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
local PlrData = {}
local MiscData = {}
table.insert(MiscData, 1, Chunk.Value) -- Inserts the Chunk value into the table and 1 is the position in the table
table.insert(MiscData, 2, Storyline.Value)
table.insert(PlrData , MiscData) --Inserts the MiscData table into the PlrData table. As I said, you can save tables inside of tables. So follow this process with your other data and just make more tables
local success, fail = pcall(function()
DataStore:SetAsync(plr.UserId.."-data", PlrData ) --Saves the PlrData table
end)
if success then
print("Save success!") -- Data is saved
else
warn("Error saving for "..plr.Name..". "..fail)
end
end)
Checking the data when the player joins is pretty simple:
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) --Runs when a player joins
local PlrData = {} --Makes a new table
local success, fail = pcall(function()
PlrData = DataStore:GetAsync(plr.UserId.."-data") --Gets the player data if it exists and puts it into the table we just made
end)
if success then --if the player data exists
Chunk.Value = PlrData [1] --Makes the Chunk value the same as it was before the player left
Storyline.Value = PlrData[2]
end
end)
I wrote this stuff pretty quickly so I can imagine there might be some typos and I might’ve got some stuff wrong so let me know if you need help with anything and tell me if you need me to explain anything
I thought I had a solution but apparently not 
Yes please, help would be appreciated
Don’t represent data using instances like that. Make a proper data module that saves each player’s data in a table using a module like ProfileService and then use something like ReplicaService for state changes.
Make an algorithm to change the playerdata folder into tables depending on hierarchy? something like that
The way I would approach this is by making the data into a tree within a table.
You could do something like this:
-- ModuleScript
local function appendToTree(tree, child)
if child:IsA("Folder") then
tree[child.Name] = {}
else
-- Account for other classes
tree[child.Name] = child.Value -- Blah, blah
end
end
return function(DataFolder: Folder)
local tree = {}
-- You only need 4 nested loops because your hierarchical depth is 4.
for _, child in DataFolder:GetChildren() do
appendToTree(tree, child)
-- Continue if the child doesn't have any children (a.k.a is not a folder)
if not child:IsA("Folder") then continue end
for _, _child in child:GetChildren() do
appendToTree(tree[child.Name], _child)
if not _child:IsA("Folder") then continue end
for _, __child in _child:GetChildren() do
appendToTree(tree[child.Name][_child.Name], __child)
if not __child:IsA("Folder") then continue end
for _, ___child in __child:GetChildren() do
appendToTree(tree[child.Name][_child.Name][__child.Name], ___child)
end
end
end
end
return tree
end
Of course, this is a very hacky and unreliable algorithm. To make this more dynamic, you will need a way to figure out the hierarchical depth of an instance (which means the amount of descendants to the farthest descendant), which I do not have time to come up with. Hope this helps!