How can i search everything under a folder?

local folderDescs = folder:GetDescendants()

local potentialHit = table.find(folderDescs, SEARCHTERMHERE)

if potentialHit then
    print(potentialHit)
end

GetDescendants is really nice but I can’t use it for mine so here’s what I do.

local function scanFolder(Array, folder)
       for index, values in pairs (folder:GetChildren)
               if values:IsA(“Folder”) then
                     Array[values.Name] = {}
                     if values:GetChildren() ~= nil then 
                           scanFolder(Array[values.Name], values)
                     end 
               else 
                      Array[values.Name] = values.Value
               end
       end
      return Array
end

And you just pass it the folder you want to search through and the Array or Table you want to JSONEncode India string. Also you can probably do Array[index] instead of values.Name since index is the name of the value lol

So like this

DataStoreArray = scanFolder({}, folderYouWantScannedIn)

This is for storing Folder Data in a Datastore without GetDescendants. If you want to just search the folder for a value GetDescendants is the best. But this way does exactly what get descendants does but you can control it.