With the release of the new Data Stores Manager feature, a group of us developers have noticed unfamiliar DataStores being listed under our experiences.
These DataStores were not created by us as far as we know – there is no mention of the names in our codebases, and the names of DataStores are often quite random and unrelated to our experiences (for example, “Loadout” in a roleplaying game without equippable gear).
To confirm the issue we also checked whether they showed up in DataStoreService:ListDataStoresAsync(), and also by calling DataStore:GetAsync() to read particular keys. All the unfamiliar DataStores are also present and available to use via these APIs.
This smells a bit like some permission issue that has caused DataStores for other experiences to become accessible in our experiences.
Of note is that all of the data for everyone Some of this data for several people was created exactly on December 31, 2019, at what seems to be the same time (4:00 PM PST). Not still an issue I’m sure I’m not sure if it’s still an issue as some other people are sharing different timestamps.
I wish I could delete this data since it is confusing to see in the datastores manager.
I have data that primarily seems to be from August 2021. Incidentally, the experience was created in July 2021, so maybe it’s not possible for me to have things earlier than that.
these unknown datastores are likely from free models you used at some point like the miners Haven kit, they can have scripts that save to the datastore
I highly doubt this. I don’t remember ever using any MH free models & there’s over 200 entries for actual player data, showing their UserId, Codes they entered, their base layouts, and more.
Someone having bee swarm simulator data from real users in their datastores is not a free model issue, which was a real case mentioned in a discord server that we share.
