Script error. How do i fix?

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#1

Error Message (ServerScriptService.Script:28: attempt to index nil with ‘GetChildren’ - Server
16:36:32.101 Stack Begin - Studio
16:36:32.101 Script ‘ServerScriptService.Script’, Line 28 )

local ToolFolder = game:GetService('ServerStorage'):FindFirstChild("AvatarItems")
local DataStoreService = game:GetService('DataStoreService')
local SaveData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('SaveData')

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local ToolData = SaveData:GetAsync(Player.UserId)

	local Backpack = Player.Character
	local StarterGear = Player.Character

	if ToolData ~= nil then
		for i, v in pairs(ToolData) do
			if ToolFolder:FindFirstChild(v) and Backpack:FindFirstChild(v) == nil  then
				ToolFolder[v]:Clone().Parent = Backpack
			
			end
		end
	end

	Player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(function(Character)
		Character:WaitForChild('Humanoid'):UnequipTools()
	end)
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local ToolTable = {}

	for i, v in pairs(Player.Character:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(ToolTable, v.Name)
	end
	if ToolTable ~= nil then
		SaveData:SetAsync(Player.UserId, ToolTable)
	end
end)
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#2

I think it’s bc the character has already unloaded when the player is leaving, therefore the script is attempting to get children of nil which would cause an error

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#3

oh. But how do i fix the issue

#4

i got another script and did the same thing

#5

if the player doesn’t lose tools on death, then you should just have it add a folder to a player, and then when the player gets a new tool Player.Backpack.ChildAdded check if the a string value with the tool’s name isn’t in the folder, if it isn’t in the folder then make a new string value in the folder with the tool’s name as its name and when the player leaves replace for i, v in pairs(Player.Character:GetChildren()) with for i, v in pairs(Player.Folder Name:GetChildren())

#6

am i able to save the players avatar items from the character and move it to the folder ?

#7

do you mean accessories or stuff like that?

#8

yeah like accessories and shirts / pants.

#9

what kind of system are you trying to make?

#10

im just trying to save the players acessories so when they rejoin back in they spawn with them. Im using a tool saving script to save the players avatar items

#11

are you trying to make something like an rp game?

#12

its avatar items from a avatar item shop

#13

im trying to make a old roblox sim and im have a avatar shop for it im just trying to save the items

#14

ok, i think what could work is that you still have a folder in the player, and every time the player adds an accessory it adds a string value with the name, and every time the player removes an accessory it removes a string value with the name.

#15

but when the player rejoins how dose it add the items back into the character

#16

so the accessories are in a folder in replicated server of something right?

#17

yeah they are in server storage

#18

is there a way to like when the player is leaving it moves the avatar items to a folder in rs and when the player joins back in it transfer’s it back into the character

#19

ok so you save the folder by using the system you already have in place but with whatever the folder name is, and then when the player joins, you replace the
ToolFolder[v]:Clone.Parent = Backpack withToolFolder[v]:Clone.Parent = Player.Character The Tooldata thing should be in Player.CharacterAdded

#20

no you cannot, if a change is made to replicated storage it wont save when the player joins a different server