Why isn't this saving?

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#1

I’m am trying to save a lot of folders that have different weapons and their data but every time I saving the data it gives the error
“Cannot store Dictionary in data store. Data stores can only accept valid UTF-8 characters”
I don’t understand why. I did try making the folders into tables that hold the values and it still doesn’t work.

Here is the code

local function folderToDictionary(folder)
	local dictionary = {}

	for _, object in ipairs(folder:GetChildren()) do
		if object:IsA("Folder") then
			dictionary[object.Name] = folderToDictionary(object)
		elseif object:IsA("ValueBase") or object.ClassName:match("Value") then
			dictionary[object.Name] = object.Value
		end
	end

	return dictionary
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local plrData = folderToDictionary(plr.Weapons)
	print(plrData)
	local Success,err = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(plr.UserId,data)
	end)
end)

Any help would be very useful and thank you

#2

What line is this erroring on?

#3

DataStore:SetAsync(plr.UserId,data)
this one

#4

You can’t save object values in datastore, you need to serialize them first. So you should try saving it by their names or properties

#5

So find the children and save them one at a time?

#6

ohhh i forgot that only strings and numbers can be saved

#7

Save their names and their properties if it’s needed