Why is my server-side script failing to find this folder in ServerStorage?

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#1

Good day all,
I’m having a bit of difficulty with some code I’m writing at the moment.

PROBLEM
The line in the function below, “game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild(“UI_Elements”)… …PlayerGui)” isn’t executing properly because “UI_Elements” isn’t a child of ServerStorage. I’ve already checked that it’s viewable on the server-side, but for whatever reason, fails to be detected by this server-side script.

function Send_To_Main_Menu()
    Fade("White", 0.25, 0)
    Player.Character:Destroy()
    for _, element in pairs (Heads_Up_Display.Statistics:GetDescendants()) do
	    element.Visible = false
    end
    Main_Menu_Button.Visible = false
    game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild("UI_Elements").Main_Menu:Clone(Player.PlayerGui)
 	Fade("White", 0.25, 1)
    Heads_Up_Display:Destroy()
end

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Can anyone help me out here? I reckon it’s probably something incredibly stupid I’ve missed the 5 times I’ve looked over this line of code but I can’t for the life of me figure this one out.

#2

Clone doesn’t take any arguments, you need to set the parent manually.

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#3

This has not fixed the issue.

#4

…now it’s telling me DataModel (game) has no child ServerStorage.

#5

I had the same issue a while ago, you’d typically put those folders into ReplicatedStorage other than ServerStorage
EDIT:
By using the wiki, I discovered that you can’t see it from the client. That’s why you would use ReplicatedStorage. ServerStorage | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub
It says " A container whose contents are only accessible on the server. Objects descending from ServerStorage will not replicate to the client and will not be accessible from LocalScript s."

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#6

Can you try game:GetService("ServerStorage") instead? Although I’m not sure why it would be renamed.

I would’ve said the same thing except OP said it was a server-side script.

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#7

I’m not sure if this has anything to do with your problem, but where’s the script located?

#8

Uhh, some confusion going on here.
Turns out I was wrong to think ServerStorage was able to be accessed by a client.
Oh, and the script ended up being a local script. I’ve got a remoteinstance_management_script open so I must’ve gotten confused. Thanks.

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#10

Mark as solution?