I recommend just shutting down all the servers once you change it. This way, every new server created will have the new datastore.
I feel like there has to be a way to do it without doing that, because I am certain that everyone who plays my game will hate getting kicked everyday…
Yes, you can use it like that, the type of datastore I made does, this may differ from each one however!
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I am confused, does this help my problem or just reinforce it? Sorry I might just not be understanding.
It’s ok of you don’t understand, here is what I meant.
You could try it with your game, everytime I reset the datastore in my game to a new one, then I revert it back, data stays. You should try it with yours and check, only if no one had data already!
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Try what? I think that is where I mainly lost you, what am I supposed to do. Sorry
thankfully this is a new frontier for my so no one else has data but me
How would I do that? The reverting back part? Wouldn’t I still have an issue with multiple servers?
One. Try resetting the datastore to something then revert it back and test.
Two. Already explained.
Three. Example: your current store is DSS1, get some data on it, then change it to DDS2, then get data on that, then reverse it back to DSS1. And also you won’t have an issue with it if you shutdown servers and publish them before releasing as they then will have the updated values.
You should also remove the solution so other people can come and help as people will think its already been taken care of.
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Thanks man I can try that
Oh but that was never the issue, it was people not liking the servers being shut down everyday…
I am giving you the solution for now, just because…
unless it doesn’t work for some reason
You welcome for the help, if they do not like shutdowns, you can tell them its better for the game. If it doesn’t work you can dm me here on the forum and I can help from there.
But does this work while the server is already going?
Yes it does, you just gotta update the game to apply those changes.
FWIW since this thread was bumped back up: now that DataStore v2 has been launched, you could hard reset a DataStore by calling RemoveAsync on all existing keys. There’s a 30 day period where data needs to be in a tombstone version for it to be cleared out completely.
You should still change the DataStore name if you need to “reset” your DataStores because that’ll allow you to update data more quickly especially for a production-level experience but otherwise for development, testing and clearing unused data you can manually wipe it now.
ListDataStoresAsync to get previously used DataStores → ListKeysAsync to get the keys of a DataStore, up to you if it should iterate all scopes or just specific ones → Call RemoveAsync
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When you say update is that like publish to Roblox, because I need it to update while the server is still running with potential players still in the game.
If you are going for something like daily leaderboards you don’t to update nothing, just search it up on DevForum.