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What will cause a pcall of getasync to fail?
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
local S,E = pcall(function()
local GotAsync = DataStore:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
end)
if S then
if E then -- what will cause this to fire?
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if there is no plr data or the game has a problem with getting data from roblox DollorLua 235 — 4y
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Data store requests are web requests, and you can't guarantee that all web requests will be always successful. User#24403 69 — 4y
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The pcall function is there because it is not guaranteed that the player has data already saved. If the DataStore can't find the data saved, it will return an error.
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This is simply not true. BlueTaslem 18071 — 4y