Profile Service trouble adding new values / modifying existing values

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Hello, I have used Profile Service for a long time and am very familiar with it, but across everytime I’ve used it, I’ve always ran into the same problem where if I edit an exisiting value or add a new value to the config / template, ProfileService will not recognize this and it will update accordingly. I have used Reconcile and it still doesn’t work. An example would be if I had 2 Values called Diamonds and Level, and If I add a third value to config called, XP ProfileService will not update the new values until I reset the data store. This is a huge problem for later updates in my game because in the future I want to add new values and obviously not reset everyones data, please help asap

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ProfileService won’t automatically add new fields to old saves, update your template like,
add XP = 0 and restart so your code picks up the change & afterwards LoadProfileAsync() call profile:Reconcile() to merge any missing keys into existing data

local store = ProfileService.GetProfileStore(“Game”, {
Diamonds = 0,
Level = 1,
XP = 0, – new
})

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local profile = store:LoadProfileAsync(“player_”…player.UserId)
if profile then
profile:Reconcile() – XP into old saves

end
end)

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This is exactly what I am doing
Blehblalbel

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Well I don’t exactly know how your code looks like my friend, so I can only assume.
Anyhow, make sure to add XP = 0 in your module before calling GetProfileStore then restart
and after LoadProfileAsync call profile:Reconcile() before you read or use profile.Data, reconcile only affects in-memory data, let the profile auto-save on leave or call profile:Save() so your test sticks

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I think your misunderstading my question. I am adding the value before I click “Play”. The config module is made of all the data in my game that gets saved, so things like level and xp. What I am saying is if I modify one of these values, it will not update to the profileservice data UNTIL I reset the data store key. I call LoadProfileAsync() Whenever the player joins and then I call Reconcile() after so I don’t get what your saying unless you can elaborate further on what you mean.

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That is default behaviour, if it worked like that then it would just overwrite the profile everytime you join, best bet for this is probably profile versions and compare versions

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I didn’t misunderstand, ProfileService only deep copies your template for brand new profiles, so any changes to your config module won’t apply to saved data until you manually call :Reconcile()
EVEN IF you add XP = 0 before hitting “Play"
calling profile:Reconcile() only fills missing keys in-memory and doesn’t persist them back to Roblox’s DataStore, you need to write those merged fields permanently, follow your :Reconcile() with either:

profile:Reconcile()
profile:Save() -- forces immediate write to DataStore
-- or --
profile:Release() -- auto saves and frees the session lock

ProfileService - Basic Usage

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Thank you, I thought I was going crazy for a second

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Yeah this still isn’t working. I’ve called Profile:Save() after using reconcile and nothing happened. Also it wouldn’t make sense to call release after Reconcile() since it would kick the player

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How would I do this? Your saying to make a new version of the template everytime? Please elaborate further.

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Heres the code though I really don’t what this would help with but here:

	local Profile = ProfileStore:LoadProfileAsync("Player_" .. Player.UserId)

	if Profile then
		Profile:AddUserId(Player.UserId)
		Profile:Reconcile()
		Profile:Save()
		

		Profile:ListenToRelease(function()
			Profiles[Player] = nil
			Player:Kick()
		end)

		if Player:IsDescendantOf(Players) == true then
			Profiles[Player] = Profile
			
			PlayerClass:AddLeaderstats(Player)
			PlayerClass:UpdateGiftTimer(Player, Profile)
			
			local Placements = Profile.Data.Placements
			
			for i, v in Profile.Data.HotbarItems do
				local ItemType = TypeClass.GetWeaponType(v)
				RP:WaitForChild("RemoteEvents"):WaitForChild("AddHotbarItem"):FireClient(Player, v, ItemType, nil, Placements)
			end

			UpdateSettings:FireClient(Player, Profile.Data.Settings)
			
			task.spawn(function()
				while task.wait(1) do
					--PlayerClass:HandleXP(Player, Profile, 100)
				end
			end)
			
			
			--PlayerClass:Update(Player, "💎 Diamond", 50000000)

			--PlayerClass:Update(Player)
		else
			Profile:Release()
		end
	else
		Player:Kick()
	end
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Hey actually I was dumb, I forgot that when you modify a value in ProfileService that is the DEFAULT value and it wouldn’t work until reset or a new player joins, what I was actually trying to say is that when you add a new key it wouldn’t save, but the Profile:Save() seemed to fix this issue, thanks.

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Hey wait I lied, the solution does not work. I gave the solution to you too early, because It had worked when I tested the random keys I put in the Template, but after I removed them, they were still present so I seriously have no idea…