Hello. I’ve had my plently share of datastores in my roblox games, and I’ve reached a certain wallblock when trying to delete datastores permanently, by that I mean deleting it entirely, getting rid of all keys and even from it displaying. I’m stuck at the “getting rid of itself” part though.
Random datastores that I wanted to wipe, since the game used to be mostly just a console playground back then.
There might be a better method but you could run:
local dataStore = -- Insert datastore local allKeyPages = dataStore:ListKeysAsync() while allKeyPages.IsFinished == false do local keyPage = allKeyPages:GetCurrentPage() for key, value in keyPage do local success, errorMessage = pcall(function() dataStore:RemoveAsync(key) end) if not success then warn("Remove Async Fail!", errorMessage) end task.wait(0.5) -- Prevent rate limit end allKeyPages:AdvanceToNextPageAysnc() end Reference:
Roblox Docs - DataStores - :ListKeysAsync()
This works, but I have a datastore with 11k total keys and this just won’t do it. Around 20~ mins per 1k keys removed.
I’m not sure if there’s an easier solution but you can probably lower the wait a bit without getting rate limited. Maybe you can do 0.1 seconds.